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364 TRAVELS
enough to hold all our party. Befides, it 1s an eftablifhed cuftom,
and generally followed by every traveller throughout the Swedifh
dominions, the great road excepted, to go direétly to the clergy-
man’s houfe, and to afk for a chamber to lodge in, with the fame
freedom as you would ufe at an inn; for the public houfes kept
by the peafants are fo very bad, that it is impoflible for decent
company to ftayinthem. The clergy, who, for the moft part, are
wealthy, and wearied with the dull uniformity of living in thofe
fequeftered regions, cut off from all fociety, are extremely happy
— to receive a ftranger who is acquainted with what is paffing in
the world, and with whom they may converfe of public and of
private tranfactions. He is entertained in a fuperior ftyle, and
treated with the moft delicious fare they can procure. _
The clergy almoft univerfally fpeak Latin, fome few German,
and as they have had a college education, you find one now and
then who fpeaks a little French: with the help of thefe languages
you make yourfelf underftood by the matter of the family, but one
fuffers a vaft difadvantage in not being able to fpeak, in fome de-
gree, the language of the country. Inthe houfes of the clergy you
fometimes meet with extremely handfome and amiable young
ladies, who having for the greateft part been educated in a town,
or amidift the pleafures and diffipation of the capital, return home
with a certain polifh in their manners, which is by no means cal-
culated to render folitude pleafing, or to difpofe their minds to fup-
port the contraft, and fudden change of fignacone: with philofophi-
eal equanimity. Thefe young women, however, like their mothers,
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