DOVER.
I Left This Letter Unfinished, As I Was Hurried On Board, And Now I
Have Only To Tell You That, At The Sight Of Dover Cliffs, I Wondered
How Anybody Could Term Them Grand; They Appear So Insignificant To
Me, After Those I Had Seen In Sweden And Norway.
Adieu! My spirit of observation seems to be fled, and I have been
wandering round this dirty place, literally
Speaking, to kill time,
though the thoughts I would fain fly from lie too close to my heart
to be easily shook off, or even beguiled, by any employment, except
that of preparing for my journey to London.
God bless you!
MARY.
APPENDIX.
Private business and cares have frequently so absorbed me as to
prevent my obtaining all the information during this journey which
the novelty of the scenes would have afforded, had my attention been
continually awake to inquiry. This insensibility to present objects
I have often had occasion to lament since I have been preparing
these letters for the press; but, as a person of any thought
naturally considers the history of a strange country to contrast the
former with the present state of its manners, a conviction of the
increasing knowledge and happiness of the kingdoms I passed through
was perpetually the result of my comparative reflections.
The poverty of the poor in Sweden renders the civilisation very
partial, and slavery has retarded the improvement of every class in
Denmark, yet both are advancing; and the gigantic evils of despotism
and anarchy have in a great measure vanished before the meliorating
manners of Europe.
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