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account, they would find that travelling in Sweden with one’s
own equipage, not to mention the circumstance of its extreme
inconvenience, is, on the whole, more expensive than in any
other country of Europe, except perhaps in England. The
countries in which I have found it easiest to travel, that is, where
convenience is most happily united with cheapness, are Austria and
Bohemia, particularly the latter. I am not conscious of any
tendency to either ill-humour or prejudice: I only declare matters
of fact that have come under my own observation, and under
that of many other travellers. If some have travelled in Sweden
with greater advantages than myself, I can only say that they
have been more fortunate: but I must still maintain, that those
impediments which I have described, are extremely disagreeable,
and not to be met with in any other part of Europe.
Another comfort for travellers, much boasted of by the
natives, and represented as peculiar only to their country, is, that at
every post house a register is put into your hands, under the
denomination of a day-book, in which travellers set down their
names, their state or condition of life, whence they came, and
whither they are going; and if they have been satisfied or
otherwise with the postilion, or rather the peasant. But it is, in my
opinion, rather to be considered as an inconvenience: for it is, in
fact, a mere formality, that occasions a waste of time without
remedying any one of the evils that may be recorded and
complained of. When a traveller sets out on a journey through
Sweden, under the erroneous notion of its being a wild and barbarous
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