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many hundreds of American plants, as there 

 is not yet a. public botanical garden for the 

 ufe of the univerfity, and he with great ex- 

 pectation wifhes to fee what plants will bear 

 the climate, and bear good and ripe feeds fo 

 far north. He published the account of his 

 journey by intervals, for want of encou- 

 ragement, and fearing the expences of pub- 

 liming at once in a country where few 

 bookiellers are found, and where the author 

 muft very often embrace the bufinefs of 

 bookfeller, in order to reimburfe himfelf 

 for the expences of his publication. He 

 publimed in his firft volume obfervations on 

 England, and chiefly on its hufbandry, where 

 he with the molt, minute fcrupuloufnefs and 

 detail, entered into the very minutiae of this 

 branch of his bufinefs for the benefit of his 

 countrymen, and this fubject he continued 

 at the beginning of the fecond volume. A 

 paflage crofs the Atlantic ocean is a new 

 thing to Swedes, who are little ufed to it, 

 unlefs they go in the few Ea/l India fhips 

 of their country. Every thing therefoie 

 was new to Mr. Kalm, and he omitted no 

 circumftance unobferved which are repeated 

 in all the navigators from the earlier times 

 down to our own age. It would be a kind 

 of injuftice to the public, to give all this at 

 large to the reader. All that part defcribing 



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