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THROUGH SWEDEN. 2
Et tu n’es distingue parmis les animaux
Que par ton noble orgueil, ton genie, et tes maux.*
Leaving Trolhitta, we proceeded to Stockholm by Wesler-
land, Nericia, Sudermania, and the government of Stockholm.
Though the country in the near vicinity of Gothenburg be bleak
and barren, it improves greatly as you recede from that town and
the sea coast, and advance north-east towards the capital. Woods,
water, rocks, hills tufted with trees, vales and cultivated fields,
give it not a very rich but a pleasing aspet. The woods, which
become fine and thick on each side of the road, are sometimes
so extensive as to stretch out their limits beyond the eye of the
trayeller. They consist chiefly of oak, birch, mountain-ash, and
firs; all of them tall but flender, which perhaps 1s owing to the
scarssl’cssy soil in which they grow. The cattle are small, and their
fleeces hang down like the hair of goats. The horses I haye |
already described. But I ought to add, that when tolerably well
fed, they are very active.
On the subje& of horses I mult farther observe, that when we
came to Stromsholm, a small palace belonging to the King, on
the lake of Milar, we went to sce the royal stables that were
* What may not be performed by the fertility of art ? It is by her means that
man has become lord of the world. It is a vain thing to fancy that he derives
this title of soyereignty from nature—Mortal ! there is nothing thine, that does
not become so through labour. This globe is not subjected to the vast extent of
thy power by birth-right, but by that of conquest—thou art only distinguished
from other animals by a noble pride, by thy genius, and by thy miseries !
E 2 ; highly
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