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26 TRAVELS
of inscriptions at Trolhitta, become sometimes so digreffive from
their subje&, that travellers are found ’mutually reviling, and
making personal allusions to one another. At last the poor book
itself was rudely attacked by the malignity of certain splenetic
persons, who were not satisfied with making many peevish com-
ments, but even went the length of mutilating it, by tearing out
some of its leaves. On my return through that place in 1800,
the inscription I had left in 1799 was not to be found. The
re’aso_n why it had been implicated in the same fate with others,
and torn out, I am wholly at a loss to imagine. I do not re-
colle& the very words, but I am certain that there was nothing
in the sentiments that could be just matter of offence to any
body. What I said was to this effet: that the cataracts and
’ works at Trolhitta were obje&s which abundantly compensated
to two ltalian travellers the want of any thing curious in the
southern parts of Sweden, and which could make them forget
the beauties of their native country. I replaced my inscription
with the addition of the following beautiful lines by the Abbe
Delille :—
Que ne peut point de Part Vactivite feconde !
C’est par elle que Phomme est souverain du monde,
De la nature en vain tu crois naitre le roz, ;
- Mortel ! fans le travail rien n’existe-pour tol.
Ce globe n’est soumis 3 ta vaste puissance,
Qu’ i titre des conquets, et non pas de naifsance,
Et
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