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England stage-coaches are found in all directions, so that you may
with ease travel to whatever quarter your inclination or business
calls you. Even where there are navigable rivers and canals, these
carriages abound at every hour of night and day. As to the
comparison which the advocate of the North draws between the inns
of Sweden and those of Italy, I shall not discuss its truth or
falsehood, as I might be suspected of partiality for the latter, which is
my native country. I shall only observe, that between
Helsinburg and Stockholm, a distance of near four hundred miles,[1]
nothing that can be considered as an inn is to be met with:
whereas there is no part of Italy where, in the same space, you
would not come to fifty towns, in neatness and elegance, and
every comfort of life, equal if not superior even to the capital
of Sweden; that in Italy, the South perhaps excepted, it is
impossible to travel twenty miles without meeting with an inn, whilst
there is not so much as one to be found in Stockholm itself; that
a small village in Italy is better provided with all the necessaries
and conveniencies of life, than the most eminent provincial towns
of Sweden: in short, I shall answer the Swedish author to whom
I allude in his own words: “If any one wish to travel through
Sweden with tolerable ease, he will do well to provide himself
with a carriage, as well as with bread and wine, and other
provisions,” which precautions are certainly quite unnecessary in Italy.[2]
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