i3 2 TRAVELS T H R O U G H LAPLAND.
other courfe of travels more adapted to produce reflections and
lefTons, that may redound to his well-being! How great bis 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 plealures which their native country
refufes ! They carry home the deiire of enjoying fuch a climate
and iky as that which they have le f t; they feel privations every
day ; they regret the want of thofe amulements, which are pecu*
liar to a more refined ftate of eivilifation, and to a more genial
climate : they long for the gratification which is derived from
the culture of fcience, and the perfection o f the fine arts. But
happinefs is not eflentially promoted by the mere recollection of
thofe loft enjoyments. T h e traveller from the South, on the contrary,
returning from the country which yields no fuch pleafures
and advantages, hails with enthufiaftn the bounteous fun, whole
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 diftributing juftice and equal protection to
the people : let him repole from all his labours and toils; let him
cultivate in the bolcrm of his family the civic virtues, anxioufly
cheriih that fcience and civility which have lb dole a connexion
with virtue and humanity, and teach and allure his countrymen,
th a t they, are the happieft people in the world.
0 GENERAL.
G ENERAL
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MISCELLANEOUS REMARKS
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