The Fop In The Play Paid A Greater Compliment Than He Was
Aware Of When He Said To A Person, Whom He Meant To Flatter, "I Like
You Almost As Well As A NEW ACQUAINTANCE." Why Am I Talking Of
Friendship, After Which I Have Had Such A Wild-Goose Chase.
I
thought only of telling you that the crows, as well as wild-geese,
are here birds of passage.
LETTER XIII.
I left Tonsberg yesterday, the 22nd of August. It is only twelve or
thirteen English miles to Moss, through a country less wild than any
tract I had hitherto passed over in Norway. It was often beautiful,
but seldom afforded those grand views which fill rather than soothe
the mind.
We glided along the meadows and through the woods, with sunbeams
playing around us; and, though no castles adorned the prospects, a
greater number of comfortable farms met my eyes during this ride
than I have ever seen, in the same space, even in the most
cultivated part of England; and the very appearance of the cottages
of the labourers sprinkled amidst them excluded all those gloomy
ideas inspired by the contemplation of poverty.
The hay was still bringing in, for one harvest in Norway treads on
the heels of the other. The woods were more variegated,
interspersed with shrubs. We no longer passed through forests of
vast pines stretching along with savage magnificence. Forests that
only exhibited the slow decay of time or the devastation produced by
warring elements.
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