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2 A TOUR THROUGH
gorgeous Palaces, leave not a wreck behind.” When you
fee this Letter, however, all your doubts will vanifh,
as we’are now embarked upon the wide Ocean, and
Favonian breezes are wafting us to the Shores of Sweden.
You, and perhaps our other friends, are fmiling at our
romantic Expedition, you are laying your heads together
and confulting how three mortals, like Sir H. G. L.
Mr. B. and myfelf, can expeét to fubfift upon Lapland
mountains, or how we ever formed the refolution of un-
dertaking fo enterprizing -a Journey. But, my dear
friend, give yourfelf no trouble about us. We have be-
gun our Expedition with good Spirits and undiminithed
Courage and hope to finifh it with equal eclat. Perhaps
you will not believe me when I fay that we are enjoying
ourfelves in our Cabin with our ufual Englifh Cheer,
difdaining the bluftering-of Boreas or the- tumult of the
Waves, with
“ One wide Ocean all around us,
“ All above us one black Sky. ”
There: is a variety in a fhort. Voyage very agreeable
to a perfon accuftomed to live on land, provided he can
enfure himfelf from Sea-ficknefs, The unbounded blue
Horizon, the Sun-beam playing upon the waters, the
floating
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