TRAVELLI NG, &c. 21 



Lapland alone furnifhed me fome time ago 

 with a hundred rare plants. I have gathered 

 lately as many in the iflands of the Baltic, and 

 in Scania as many more, never before ob- 

 ferved in Sweden. Nor can it be doubted, 

 but that our other provinces conceal in their 

 unfrequented corners other new plants, va- 

 luable for ufe or beauty, tho' hitherto over- 

 looked, if a diligent and acute inquirer be 

 not wanting, i will not fay with the poet, 

 " Happy the rural inhabitant," but " happy 

 *' the Swedifh inhabitant if he knew but what 

 « good he is pofTefled of '." 



The zoologift will no wliere meet with a 

 place more delightful, and more fuitable to 

 his views, than that where flocks of all kinds 

 of birds in fpring time, and fummer, gather 



** Our countrey has been fearched by fo many able botaniUs 

 for plants, that what is faid here cannot be applied to us. 

 But a curious traveller might be of great fervice in relation 

 to plants even here, by obferving, and making generally 

 known what plants are peculiarly cultivated in fome coun- 

 tries. Thus for inllance ihey (ow lotus, 13. Linn. Sir^s- 

 foot u-foil, Rayfyn. 334 in Herefordfhire, which grows all 

 over England on dry paftures, and is found very good for 

 Iheep, :ho' every where elfe, as far as i know, negleded. 

 Again they make great ufe of tlie common njetch in Glo- 

 ceilerlhire, chiefly for horfes, feeding them v/ith it upon 

 the foot, and eating it up tune encagh for turneps u.e fame 

 year. 



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