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niftied with Svvedifh money amounting to fomething lefs 

 than eight pounds, he left Upfalj and proceeded on 

 horfeback as far as Hernofand, the principal town of 

 Angermania on the Bothnian gulph. There he remain- 

 ed a few days anxioufly waiting the return of milder 

 weather, and vifited at fome rifque of his life the Angu- 

 lar caverns on the top of mount Skula. From this place 

 he travelled on foot; and reaching Amea he left the 

 public road, and took his rout through the vaft woods 

 which lie on the weft in order to traverfe the more 

 fouthern parts of Lapland. Alone, unacquainted with 

 the language or the manners of the people among whom 

 he was about to commit himfelf, undaunted by the dan- 

 gers and difficulties around him, and difdaining the hor- 

 rors which the iniaginations of his friends had magnified 

 before him, he launched Into thofe wild and dreary re- 

 gions, trufting to providence for his fafety and the hof- 

 pitality of the inhabitants for his fupport* 



Having reached the pine mountains which border on 

 Norway, and after encountering many hardfhips and 

 privations in a country barren, rnountainous and ftony, 

 he returned to the weftern part of Bothnia, and vifited 

 Pithea and Lula on the great gulph. Here he proceeded 

 to vifit the ruins of the temple of Jockmock in Lapmark, 

 and thence traverfed the Lapland defert, deftitutc of vil- 

 lages, cultivation, roads or any conveniencies, and peo- 

 pled only by the inhabitants of a few ftragling huts. 

 In this diftri6l, when under the feventieth degree of 



