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tormenting Knat. The days there are long ; and 

 the beautiful meteorous nights indulge them with 

 every opportunity of collecting fo minute a food : 

 whilft mankind is very fparingly fcattered over that 

 vaft northern wafte. 



Why then mould Linnteus, the great explorer 

 of thefe rude deferts, be amazed at the myriads of 

 water fowl that migrated with him out of Lap- 

 land? Which exceeded in multitudes the army of 

 Xerxes-, covering, for eight whole days and nights, 

 the furface of the river Calix*. His partial obier- 

 vation as a botanift, would confine their food to 

 the vegetable kingdom, almoft denied to the Lap- 

 land waters ; inattentive to a more plenteous table 

 of infect food, which the all bountiful Creator had 

 fpread for them in the wildernefs f, 



numinis munificentia. Amsen. acad. IV. 1. 5. M. de Mau- 

 pertuis makes the fame obfervation, Ce ruifleau nous con- 

 duifit a un lac fi rempli de petits grains jaunatres de la grof- 

 feur du Mil que toute fon eau en etoit teinte. je prh ceo 

 grains pour la Chryfalide de quelque infe&e, &c. Qewvres dr 

 M. de Maupertuis, III. II 6. 



* Flora Lapponica, 273. Aman. acad. IV. 570, 

 f It may be remarked, that the lakes of mountanous rocky 

 countries in general are deflitute of plants : few or none are 

 feen on thofe of Switzerland ; and Lmnaus makes the fame 

 obfervation in refpeft to thofe of Lapland ; having, during 

 his whole tour, difcovered only a fingle fpecimen of a lemna 

 trifulca, or ivy leaved duck's meat. Flora Lap. No. 470. a few 

 of the Jcirpus lacujlris, No. 18. or bullruih ; the alopecurus 

 geniculate, No. 38. or flote foxtail grafs ; and the ranunculus 

 aquatilis, No. 234. which are all he enumerates in his Prole- 

 Qomena to that excellent performance. 



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