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Cleiclerg was to make observations on the four elements, as they 

 were then called ; such as on the quality of the water, on mineral springs, 

 on the snow which never melts on the Alps in summer, on the height 

 of the mountains, the weather, the fruitfulness or sterility of the soil, &c. 

 He was also charged with drawing up the report of the whole corps. 



Fahlsfedt was appointed metallurgist ; besides collecting minerals, 

 earths, petrifactions. Sec. &c., he was hostler of the expedition. It was 

 his business to feed, saddle, harness, water, clean, and shoe the horses. 

 The geologist a groom ! Buckland, MantcU, Siilinian, and Hitchcock, 

 what say ye ? 



Stohlhcrg went as botanist; he vvas to examine and collect and de- 

 scribe all the trees, plants, herbs, grasses, and fungi. He was moreover 

 quarter-master geneial. It was his business to procure good lodgings; 

 to buy meat, and poultry, flour, and all other good things. He bargained 

 with the peasants for their best rooms, and, no doubt, sent the owners 

 into the stable, or if they were obdurate, made a contract for the softest 

 and cleanest place in the barn for his own master and companions. A 

 very dignified employment for a botanist ! 



Emporelius was the zoologist. He was to describe and figure the 

 quadrupeds and all other animals, fishes, birds, worms, insects, &c. &c. 

 He had a collateral occupation, and must have been a sort of adjutant to 

 Stohlberg, for it was his business to shoot the game and to catch the 

 fish that were necessary for the subsistence of the company. 



Hedenslad, was the economist; he was to examine the dress of the 

 Laplanders, their dwellings, their mode of prepaiing provisions, their 

 matrimonial and funeral rites, their knowledge of medicine, their mode 

 of living, diet, &c. &c. His additional employment was to act as aid- 

 de-camp to the general, to communicate his orders, to ease the other 

 men together whenever required, to summon them into the presence of 

 the master every evening to give an account of the proceedings of the 

 day; he was also to see that every man was in bed at the proper time, 

 and up again in the morning at the appointed hour. So that poor He- 

 denslad himself was last in bed and first out, rousing up his drowsy 

 associates ! We know a feic men whom this office would not have 

 suited ! 



Sandel, a Pennsylvanian by birth, (what took liim to Europe one 

 hundred and twelve years ago ?) was Steward and Treasurer. This was 

 the most responsible of all the offices, and it is a compliment to Penn- 

 sylvania that he was chosen. He must have acted in connexion with 

 Stohlberg ; probably Stohlberg made the bargain and Sandcl paid the 



