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170 TSE RANTES
variety of matter prefented to our obfervation, we naturally attach
ourfelves to what is congenial with our own habits of thinking,
and our own purfuits and ftudies. It ought not to be the defign
or attempt in any new pilgrimage of this kind, to fuperfede and
render ufelefs all that has preceded it. The regions of Scandina-
via certainly open a wide field for various fpeculations and difco-
veries. The mines of Sweden have given birth to many literary
compofitions, and will yet indubitably produce many more. Its
navigation, commerce, revenue, population, government, police,
and internal regulations for the good order and convenience of
fociety ; the public works, edifices, and charities; the ftate of
agriculture, the army, the navy, and the various other objets that
conftitute the proper fubjects of hiftorical works and ftatiftical
enquiries—all thefe particulars have been detailed with tolerable
accuracy by many travellers before me. It would not be confiftent
with my plan to give a {ftatiftical account of Sweden, even could
I prefume or fuppofe that my reader would thank me for being
more minute in my information than Mr. Coxe has been; or be
pleafed, were I to {well my pages with more copious extracts from
the Swedith hiftory than this traveller has furnifhed. It is a juit
tribute to Mr. Coxe, and which I readily acknowledge, that he at
this day poffeffes in Sweden the reputation of an indefatigable
enquirer and colle@tor of every poffible information ona variety
of fubjects. ‘Whatever he could learn from any one he noted
down in his journal, under fome head or other. If among the
mafs of materials which he thus gathered, there were fome that
. had
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