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polar longitude, he faw the fun eight whole days with- 

 out fctting. Thence he crolled the Lapland alps into 

 Finmark, and wandered along the fhores of the north 

 fea as far as Sallero. In the latter of thefe excurfions 

 he was accompanied by two laplanders, who ferved him 

 as interpreters and guides. The greater part of the 

 fummer was confumed in the examination of thefe ardlic 

 regions, and in September he returned to Tornea with 

 the refolution to vifit the eaflern fide of the Bothnian 

 gulph. After travelling fouthward through the different 

 towns on the lake, he reached the fmall univerfity of 

 Abo, and crofling by the ifland of Aland he arrived at 

 Upfal, emaciated with hard(hips and fatigue, about the 

 latter end of 06lober. In this journey of fix months he 

 travelled over a fpace more than equal to 800 German 

 leagues, and muft have fuffered all the viciffitudes of 

 extreme heat and cold, and often hunger and thirft. 



Of the events which occurred to him and the va- 

 rious remarks he made, and of the feveral natural pro- 

 du£lions which he found in his travels, he kept a regu- 

 lar diary. This ineftimable treafure has not been pub- 

 lifhed, but together with many other of his manufcripts 

 is in the polTelTion of the learned Prefident of the 

 Linnean Society. 



Soon after his return the firft part of his Florula 

 Lapponica was printed in the SwediQi literary tranfac- 

 tions, and in about two years afterwards in the fame 



