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when he censures an English, French, or Italian traveller for
affirming that there is no such thing as convenient travelling in
Sweden, and on the other hand maintains, that his country
abounds in comforts; every one that has the least knowledge of
the subject, will immediately perceive the error and fallacy of such
a position.
When a native of the North reprefents that “you may travel as
speedily in Russia and Sweden, as in France or England; and
that on the whole you meet with as good accommodation at
the inns in these cold regions as in any part of Italy, so much
resorted to by strangers;” though I may entertain a great esteem
for that person in other respects, yet I begin to suspect that he was
never in any one of those countries which he uses for his
comparison. The only point on which Sweden will bear being
mentioned with England, is the roads. But there are no public
vehicles, such as a stage-coach, mail, diligence, or other carriage, for
the convenience of common travellers, who unite two principal
objects in their journeys, viz. expedition and cheapness. There is
no regular conveyance between the country and the capital; none,
for example, between Gothenburg and Stockholm; Stockholm
and Gefle; Gefle and Upsala, or the other principal towns of the
provinces. The reason assigned by the Swedes, “that there is no
need of stage-waggons and the like, for the transportation of
merchandize, as the country is every where intersected by lakes
and navigable rivers,” is not a sufficient excuse for the want of
public carriages to accommodate passengers. In France and
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