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with red shalloon, having small cuffs and a collar of 

 shag, leather breeches, a round wig, a green leather cap 

 and a pair of half-boots. I carried a small leather bag, 

 half an ell in length but somewhat less in breadth, fur- 

 nished on one side with hooks and eyes, so that it could 

 be opened and shut at pleasure. This bag contained 

 one shirt, two pair of false sleeves, two half-shirts, an 

 inkstand, pen-case, microscope and spy-glass, a gauze 

 cap to protect me occasionally from the gnats, a comb, 

 my journal and a parcel of paper stitched together for 

 drying plants, both in folio, my manuscript Ornithology, 

 Flora Uplandica and Characteres generici. I wore a 

 hanger at my side, and carried a small fowling-piece, as 

 well as an octagonal stick graduated for the purpose of 

 measuring." Noting everything remarkable, he followed 

 the post-road to the north, passing along the Baltic 

 coast to TJmeL From Ume§, he visited southern 

 Lapland, then made his way to Lule§, and visited 

 Lulean Lapland. Ascending the river from Lule§-, he 

 crossed the mountains to the Norwegian coast near 

 Bodo. On July 15 he set out to return, and by a 

 laborious and dangerous journey made his way back to 

 Lule§.. From this point he proceeded to Torne^, at the 

 head of the Gulf of Bothnia, then turned south and 

 followed the eastern coast of the gulf to Abo. On 

 October 10th he returned safe to Upsala. 



The journey occupied five months, during which 

 nearly four thousand English miles had to be covered, 

 mostly by riding on bad roads, or traversing wild 

 country on foot. In descending the River Lule& he 

 and his guide were on one occasion forced to trust 

 themselves to a rude raft, and to steer their course in 

 the dark. The timbers of the raft parted, and it was 

 with great difficulty that the travellers gained the 



