248 THROUGH THE FIELDS WITH LINNAEUS 



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East Dal to Ahl, or Al, on the Innsjo, and there took 

 the high road to Falun. The last date in the journal is 

 August 17. The mountains of Dalecarlia had now been 

 twice explored fully on both sides. They and their leader 

 had triumphed over many secrets ' wrung from nature's 

 close reserve.' ' At the end of life La Gloria is sung/ 

 quoth Nasman. 



Linnaeus gives a list of the parish priests who enter- 

 tained them. This in itself incidentally shed a valuable 

 light over the province ; the priests could not fail of being 

 illumined by his conversation. Linnaeus always held that 

 priests should study botany, for use in medicine in their 

 out-of-the-way parishes, and science to enliven their own 

 solitude ; for use, besides, in their glebe r said Nasman,. 

 for ' good husbandry is good divinity.' 



c Good courage breaks ill-luck to pieces,' was his final 

 proverb. The whole party arrived safe and well at, 

 Falun after a journey of over seventy-nine Swedish 

 (or 553 English) miles by the direct road.* To this. 



1 Distances in Swedish j miles. 



Fahlun . . Biursls 1 



Eattvik 12 



Oret . . . . . .10 



Orsa 13 



Mora 5| 



Elfdahl 14 



Sarna . . Serna 30 



Idre 16 



Fielten . . Fiellen . 6 



Norwegian frontier Norvige 19 



Bora's 20 



Grufum . 4 



