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cordially. I herborized at Upsal, and thence betook myself to Dan- . 
nemora, where are the celebrated iron mines, and then went on to 
Gefle, botanizing everywhere as I went. The district between Upsal 
and Gefle presents unusual interest, as, besides the Oak, many other 
plants of the middle regions of Europe have here their northern limit. 
Beyond Gefle there are vast marshes filled with Betula nana, Ledum 
palustre (found likewise at Berlin), several Carices, Andromeda poli- 
Jolia, &e., and clothed with interminable forests of Pinus sylvestris and 
Abies excelsa, which cover the plains of Gestricia, Elsingia, Anger- 
mannia, Western Bothnia, and Northern Bothnia, countries which I 
traversed by land, everywhere making excursions, and collecting every 
plant I saw, from Capsella Bursa-pastoris upwards. I mounted the 
Sculaberg, where, like Linnzeus, I nearly lost my life in climbing up to 
_ the caverns near its summit. My principal halts were at Umeó and 
at Skeleftió, of which the temperatures are known, or at least I shall 
be able to make them known. At Skeleftio I gathered for the first 
time the Ranunculus Lapponicus, and the rare and lovely Calypso borea- 
lis, Splachnuin luteum and rubrum, &c. During my journey from Gefle 
to Umeó I was overturned and thrown off the road, together with the 
horse and the horrid cart without springs, in which I travelled. The 
lacerations and contusions I received from this fall I could have borne, 
but I was sorely grieved when I found that both my barometers were | 
broken. 
At length, by Piteo, Luleo, and Hoita, I reached Staparanda and 
Torneo, where I remained two days to investigate the botany of the — 
neighbourhood. From Torneo I now penetrated into the interior of 
Lapland, navigating the rivers in a boat or more frequently travelling 
on foot, on account of the continual rapids and falls with which they — : 
are beset, and worked my way as I could through pestiferous marshes - 2 ; 
infested by millions of most insupportable and ravenous insects, which, — 
throughout the whole of my journey in Lapland, caused the most 
indescribable torment, and which, notwithstanding gloves, a veil, and a 
handkerchief round my head, put me into a fever of desperation. ; 
I now crossed the polar circle, collecting with undiminished zeal. — 
every plant that fell in my way. At Pajala, near Kengis, I visited the 
curate Lestadius, for whom our excellent friend Mr. Gay had given 
me a letter. He received me obligingly, and showed me some of his 
plants. 
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