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TRAVELS.OF EHRENMALM. 375
fancies which puerile in themfelves, but natural to frivolous and corrupted people, are
abfurd among a fober nation, to whom its poverty permits the exiftence of morals. Even
thofe among{t us whom an idle curiofity does not lead fo tar away from their native
country, and who willing to retain fome traces of the ancient Germans, do not pafs into
that country where the Franks have entirely degenerated, at leaft liften with attention to
the famous names of the Rhine, the Oder, and the Viftula, rivers that have too lon
been dyed with our blood. But {peak to them of the Anghermanna, the Indal, and the
Niouronda, and they feem alarmed and chilled merely by the idea of the cold and
fterility which they imagine to reign on fhores fo little frequented. Yet even in Swe-
den, nature poffefles her refources and her beauties.
Scarcely would we advance a ftep to be acquainted with the furface of this kingdom,
fo fertile in foldiers, in officers, in heroes, who may be faid to have given a peace, at
leaft a permament ftability to Germany, in preparing by their victories the celebrated
treaty of Weltphalia. Sweden would have prefcribed limits to Turkey and to Ruflia,
if the moft warlike of her kings could have reftrained himfelf in the career of his
triumphs. But, fince the deep wounds which by the fucceffes and reverfes of that
monarch, have been inflicted on the heart of the nation, it has never recovered its glory
nor its profperity. The genuine nerve of the northern powers is wanting in their wifhes.
What is it? Population. It is only however by agriculture, that it can hope to efta-
blifh this {pring of its valour, this fupport of its fame. ‘The afhes of our fathers repofe in
the fields of battles, which overfpread Germany. — Let us go to feek fucceffors to them,
and children worthy of their anceftors, in Nordland and Bothnia. Let us ftimulate
this land, and men will arife. Warlike and independent people, remember your-
felves ; and if it do not accord with your virtue to conquer and fubjugate, let it always
be the greateft object of your ambition, to break the chains, with which your enemies
would enflave Europe,
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