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Excerpt from Sentimental Sketches: Written During a Late Journey Through the North of Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway At Bremen, I took leave of that travelling ale-house, but only to draw] on still more tediously, b the extra-(post. The fine high-road which Napoleon cause to be ma e through all this poor district, but which was not completed, and will now remain for a century as it is, presents a great monument to his memory. Posterity will have reason to remember him for it, when the vexations he occasioned to these countries are forgotten; as they will likewise the name even of Davoust, for the brid es he raised over the swamps of the Elbe, in the line from arhurg to Hamburg. In peaceable times, it should be the work of government to prosecute undertakings of public utility, without however bearing too heavily on individuals for that purpose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.