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reduced to indigence. And in the year 1733, he made 

 excurfions in the mountains round Upfal, accompanied by 

 fome of his former pupils, for the purpofe of investigating 

 and arranging the minerals of his native country. In 

 Dalecarlia, fo celebrated for its copper mines, he became 

 knov/n to Baron Reuterholm, governor of the province, 

 whojuftly appreciating the great {kill and acutenefs of 

 obfcrvation of his young friend, fent him to the eastern 

 parts of Dalecailia, and thence to Norway, to explore 

 and report the mines of that diftri<Sl. In this journey 

 he was accompanied by the Baron's two fons, and fome 

 other ftudent?, who were defirous of acquiring a know- 

 ledge of this branch of fcience. Some obfervations on 

 the pafture herbs of this diftri£l were afterwards pub- 

 liflied in the fecond part of the Amaenitates Academics, 



under the title of Pan Suecus. 



On his return from this journey he remained at 

 Fahlun, and gave lectures on mineralogy and the art of 

 aiTaying metals. And during his refidence, which he 

 defcribes as being about a month, he became acquainted 

 with Morasus the learned phyfician of that diftrifl. 

 Morseus was reputed rich, and had two daughters. With 

 the elded of thefe, Sarah Elizabeth, he contracted an 

 intimacy, and whom in about live years afterwards he 

 married. The father however, wifely perceiving the 

 unfiniflied ftate of the loyer's education, and his inability 

 to profit by the profefTion he had chofen for want of a 



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