BRETON'S SCANDINAVIAN SKETCHES.
LIEUTENANT BRETON iS not unfavourably known as a traveller, by the account he published of his trip to Australasia. The organ of locomotion, whir'] seems stroegly developed, subsevently took hint to Noswev : and the success of his "Excursjnis has per- haps in !eyed hill' to publish his tour. The direstien of the routes of our Lieutenant does not greatly differ from that u r Mr. Bvithow junior : nor irdeed was there
much rts:in tier difference. Ai riving at Christiana, which %Yes reached ill (halt days tiller leaving Southampton, um' vosaeer
till'
pushed uortheanis furTreielbjeo, and returteel by a ertat
route. He then went to Bergen, on the Western coast : and, fol- lowing lie course of Nile 13 11:ROW, but not exactly. his tract, teeein
(we it arrieed at the Nteehern capital, by tier d:fiitrent eon- veyauree of ses-meat,, saddle-horses,. ted cartioles: t:!y
reaclest his lust stei tine-point, but Lt a fresh read, -- fel. :The BRETON IS it ensat :Admirer of the alle:ent Iii !eh.' that it . i.,• man goes back the %ray he came. As Norway is net esseet:■ tinguished for arts, commerce, or eenventioetil modes. II rt nothing to describe, lint her J.:cute : iedliteg to ebserse, lee het- peasentry, who are not /Did little, it WIW1,1 api•:.„r, to be met with, save short commons, re„ed rides, Isesli air, and brief slumbers. The landscapes are monotonous a :el Mr. BRETON describes them as (of course they must.be) for inferior to these of Switzerland. Of the people he forms a mueb less favourable opinion than Mr. Beennw: painting them as dirty, somewhat ob- trusive, slothful, and given to impose,— though the last is periteps traceable to the prodigal folly of English tourists. The inconve- niencies of travelliins we have indicated, and our ;Luther holds that there are no dan:sers which prudence may not guard against; its pleasures, 'tutees to the most robust of loon, we (vine to be nen- existent. Scandinavia is clearly the last resource of the travelling mania, except a journey overland to the North Pole, or a voy age to discover the Seuthern Continent.
The great merit of the Kervesionv tit :Vete S m`h 11WeR, was the unpretending manner in w hill they conveyed a quantity of new end 1.raetival info:in:Ilion upon matters of general The linear; oualities of our author tel the or are per- haps Unproven but the tiecongenial nature of les matter has to
it eel to le eett vent, ‘1 their full exhibitiow The wells-- as what — may also have stiffens:1 something front a ekes:: ;nailer orientally designed writhe:: a small vole] ...• • :1 ettide-beek; but c hauging his 'Iliad, produced a le ::.■ itli some disadvant ge, we thiel,, to
the clearness tai a meat, and the fieshmes cf his true:- tire, which, under the new idea, i6 tieett,tiolltIlly suspended to make way for matter collected from other letoks. The het:tided touriet, however, would do well to consult it for its plactited ilitemation and its useful hints; the general reader may be pleased with some of his adventures, and with his views and plates of costumes ; whilst the elaborate map may be serviceable to built classes.
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