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viewed and navigated the great lake Ontario^ and 

 faw the celebrated fall at Niagara. In his re- 

 turn from his fummer expedition, he croffed the 

 Blue mountains in a different place, and in a 

 Qffiober again reached Philadelphia. 



IN 1751? he went at Newca/i/e on board a 

 {hip for England, and after a paffage, fubjeft to 

 many dangers in the mod dreadful hurricanes, 

 he arrived, March the 27th, in the Thames, and 

 two days after in London. He took paffage for 

 Gothenburgh May the 5th, and was the i6th of 

 the fame month at the place of his deftination,, 

 and the i3th of June he again arrived at Stock- 

 holm^ after having been on this ufeful expedition 

 three years and eight months. He has fmce af- 

 fumed the profeflbrfhip at Aobo, where, in a 

 fmall garden of his own, he cultivates many 

 hundreds of American plants, as there is not 

 yet a public botanical garden for the ufe of the 

 univerfity, and he with great expectation wifhes 

 to fee what plants will bear the climate, and 

 bear good and ripe feeds fo far north. He pub- 

 liihed the account of his journey by intervals, 

 for want of encouragement, and fearing the ex- 

 pences of publishing at once, in a country where 

 few bookfellers are found, and where the author 

 does very often embrace the bufinefs of bookfelier, 

 in order toreimburfehimfelffor theexpences of his 

 publication. A paflage crofs \b& Atlantic ocean is a 

 new thing to the Swedes, who are little ufed to it, 

 unlefs they go in the few Eq/i India (hips of their 

 country. Every thing therefore was new to Mr. 

 Kalm, and he omitted no circumftance unob- 

 fcrved which are repeated in all the navigators 



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