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132 TRAVELS THROUGH LAPLAND.
other courfe of travels more adapted to produce reflections and
leffons, that may redound to his well-being! How great his ad-
vantage over travellers from the North, who, quitting the rigours
of their native foil, come among us and contract, by the force of
habit, a tafte and paffion for pleafures which their native country
refufes ! They carry home the defire of enjoying fuch a climate
and {ky as that which they have left; they feel privations every
day ; they regret the want of thofe amufements, which are pecu-
liar to a more refined ftate of civilifation, and to a more genial
climate: they long for the gratification which is derived from
the culture of fcience, and the perfection of the fine arts. But
happinefs is not effentially promoted by the mere recollection of
thofe loft enjoyments. The traveller from the South, on the con-
trary, returning from the country which yields no fuch pleafures
and advantages, hails with enthufiafm the bounteous fun, whofe
favourable influence and benign rays every where diffufe gladnefs,
fertility, and plenty ; and if, on his return, he is fo fortunate as to
find peace and fecurity univerfally diffufed over his native country,
and the empire of laws dittributing juftice and equal protection to
the people: let him repofe from all his labours and toils; let him
cultivate in the bofom of his family the civic virtues, anxioufly
cherifh that fcience and civility which have fo clofe a conneétion
with virtue and humanity, and teach and affure his countrymen,
that they are the happieft people in the world.
6 GENERAL
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