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of the people, and the general features of the 

 various regions he traversed, all were observed and 

 written down for future use. He collected above a 

 hundred plants, entirely undescribed and unknown 

 before, and upon his return arranged all the flora 

 of Lapland according to his own favourite system, 

 and delivered an account of his journey publicly. 



The result of his botanical observations was not 

 published for several years afterwards, during his 

 residence in Holland. This expedition was the 

 first and most difficult of all the six journeys of 

 Linnaeus. He spoke of it afterwards in one of 

 his academical addresses in these words : " My 

 journey through Lapland was particularly toil- 

 some, and I own that I was obliged to sustain 

 more hardships and dangers in that sole peregrina- 

 tion through the frontier of our northern world, 

 than in all the other travels I undertook in other 

 parts. But having once sustained the toils of 

 travelling, I buried in the oblivion of Lethe all the 

 dangers and difficulties I endured, the invaluable 

 fruits I reaped having compensated for every toil." 

 Writing to a friend on the same subject, he says : 

 "All my food in these fatiguing excursions con- 

 sisted, for the most part, of fish and reindeer's 

 milk. Bread, salt, and what is found everywhere 

 else, did but seldom recreate my palate. One of 

 the greatest nuisances which I met with in Lapland 

 was the immense number of flies. I used to keep 

 them off, by drawing a crape over my face." The 

 youthful traveller started on his adventurous journey 



