

PREFACE, 



PROFESSOR Ka/m's Travels through 

 North America, were originally written in 

 the Swedijh language, but foon after tranf- 

 lated into German by the two Murray 's, both of 

 whom are Swedes, and one a pupil of Dr. Lin- 

 tuzus, from which we may conclude that this 

 tran flat ion correfponds exactly with the original. 

 BARON Ste?i Charles Rielke, Vice-prefident of 

 the Court of Juftice in Finland, was the firft who 

 made a propofal to the Royal Academy of Sci- 

 ences at Stockholm, to fend an able man to the 

 northern parts of Siberia and Iceland, as places 

 which are partly under the fame latitude with 

 Sweden, and to make there fuch obfervations and 

 collections of feeds and plants, as would improve 

 the Swedifk hufbandry, gardening, manufactures, 

 arts and fciences. Dr. Linnaus found the pro- 

 pofal juft, but he thought that a journey through 

 North America would be yet of a more exten- 

 five utility, than that through the before -men- 

 tioned countries; for the plants of America were 

 then little known, and not fcientifically de- 

 fcribed; and by feveral trials, it feemed probable 

 that the greateft part of the North American 

 ^plants, would bear very \v*ll the -Swedijh win- 

 ters; and what was more important, a great 



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