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- THROUGH SWEDEN. rt
had already met the public eye, it muft not be thought that
Mr. Coxe publifhed them again as a plagiarift or compiler ; but
it arofe from his not knowing, or from overlooking their exift-
‘ence in the literary world. The republication of them, by con-
firming what others had noticed before him, gave an additional
value to his work, which isone of the richeft mifcellanies that ever
has appeared under the name of travels. This teftimony to the
induftry of Mr. Coxe, it would be ungenerous in me to withhold;
although I, as well as all other travellers who came after him,
fuffered, in thofe places where he had been, fome trifling incon-
veniencies from the ardour of his zeal in purfuit of information.
Mieyas told by different perfons, that his eagernefs and impatience
to obtain inftruction on feyeral points of public ogconomy, for the
improvement of his ftatiftical tables, was fo great, that he was
always ready to put queftions, but never to anfwer any. The
Swedes naturally expected that a ftranger would contribute to
their entertainment, as they were willing to facilitate his labours :
but Mr. Coxe, I was told, declined all free and communicative
conyerfation, and was intent folely on his own private views of
making a publication. He did not hefitate to requeft gentlemen
to collect materials for him, and to favour him with their ftate-
ments in writing. All this might be excufable and even laud-
able, in a philofopher, yet it was not quite fatisfactory to the
people whom he vifited: they wifhed to have their own curiofity
in fome meafure gratified, by an interchange of information:
they expected fomething more from the reverend Englith traveller
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