Today's Quote

—I am sorry Sweden is so poor & my riddle so bad.—The idea of a fashionable Bathing place in Mecklenburg!—How can people pretend to be fashionable or to bathe out of England!—Rostock Market makes one's mouth water, our cheapest Butcher's meat is double the price of theirs;

Letter to Francis Austen, aboard the Elephant in the Baltic, September 25, 1813