342 THE SWEDISH PAN. 



takes in all thofe animals, which arc natives of 

 Sweden ? For a like reafon we have entitled this 

 fmall tradl the Swedijh Pan ; intending thereby 

 to denote the five domeftic quadrupeds, which 

 live upon plants growing in Sweden ; or the de- 

 vouring army of Pan^ which lays wafte the pro- 

 vinces of the Swedijh Flora. We choofe by this 

 means to avoid a prolix definition, which is al- 

 ways disagreeable for thfe title of a book. 



§• 2. 



The paftoral life, by the teftimony of both 

 facred, and prophane hiftory, is nearly as old 

 as man himfelf j fo that i would willingly derive 

 the knowledge, which i am going to deliver, from 

 the moft ancient times. But altho* plants have 

 been conllantly obvious to the eyes of every man ; 

 yet i am obliged to declare, that we have no- 

 thing delivered down to us in any book con- 

 cerning the kinds of plants proper for the dif- 

 ferent kinds of cattle ; fo that i may be fure of 

 not difgufting my reader with flale matter new 

 drefied up. For the whole of what i prefent to 

 him is new. — Our illuftrious prefident in his 

 iourney thro' Dalecarlia ann. 1734, made the 

 tirll attempt this way, as may be feen Flor. 



Lapp. 



