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16 TRAVELS
fumed in the country itfelf, and partly exported to the Baltic and.
the Mediterranean. |
When a person is invited to dinner at Gothenburg, it is under-.
ftood that he 1s to pafs with his hoft the whole of the evening, and
to conclude a pretty constant f{cene of eating and drinking by a plen-.
tiful fupper. This is a practice common throughout all Sweden,
Stockholm not excepted: but at the fame time it is to be ob-
served, that it does not now prevail in the houfes of the first order,
but is limited to those of the fecond and inferior ranks. JI am
- told that the cafe is very much the fame in the principal towns
in England and Scotland, including the city and mercantile part
of London. It is the cuftom in Sweden, as in other proteftant
countries where religious zeal is rather servent, for every one at
table to say a fhort prayer to himself, both before and after the
meal. When dinner is over, the guefts return thanks to the
mafter of the houfe for his good cheer; and he, on the other hand,
affures his visitors that they are heartily welcome. All this ts
done with so ferious and folemn an air, that a stranger, if he did
not recollect himself, might be tempted to laugh at this extraor-
dinary ceremony. This manner, however, of returning thanks
on the part of the guefts, and the affurance of their being wel-
come on that of the mafter of the houfe, formerly appears to have
been common throughout Great Britain, for traces of it ftull re-
main in the provinces among the lower claffes of the people ;
whofe fathions, cuftoms, and. modes of life, as well as opinions,
have
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