t6 BENEFIT OP 



holding the top of mount Swucku, offoim-" 

 menfe a height, that it reaches above the 

 clouds. The wonderfull flrudlure of mount 

 Torfburg, the horrid precipices of the rock 

 Blakulla in an ifland of that name, fituated near 

 Oeland, and that prefents by its name, ftill 

 ufed among the Suegothic vulgar, no lefs than 

 by its difmal afped, an idea of the llupidity, 

 and fuperftition of that antient people. 



Befides the wonderfull vaults, and caverns of 

 the Skiula mountains, the high plains of the 

 ifland Carolina, the unufual form and ftrudure 

 of the Kierkerfian fountains in Oeland j to pafs 

 over numberlefs other ftrange works of nature, 

 the like to which perhaps are no where to be 

 met with. 



Where can we have greater opportunities, 

 than in this Suegothic trad, of confidering the 

 intenfe rigor, and vehemence of winter, the 

 incredible marble-like ftrength of ice ? And 

 yet in this inclement climate grain of all forts 

 is obfer\''ed to fpring forth fooner, grow quick- 

 er, and ripen in lefs time than in any other part 

 of the world.* 



» Vid. a treatlfe concerning the foliation of trees pub- 

 liflbed in this colledlion, and the prolegomena to the Flora 

 Lapponica of this author, where he fays that at Purkyaur 

 in Lapland anno 1732. barley fown May 51. was ripe 

 July 28. i.e. in 58 days; and rye fown May 31. wa§ 

 ripe, and cut Aug, 5. i. e, in 66 days. 



