260 THROUGH THE FIELDS WITH LINNAEUS 



earliest Upsala pupils, the botanist of the Dalecarliais 

 journey, a medical student also proceeding to Harderwyk 

 to take his degree ; but as Class Sohlberg was now at 

 Lund, Linnaeus would more probably have met him 

 there or on the coast. We do not hear if he had as- 

 many or more copper dollars than Linnasns, bnt he 

 does not seem to have been a vastly interesting com- 

 panion ; at any rate no kindred soul like Artedi. But 

 Artedi was in England trying to transmute his learning 

 into gold. Perhaps he and Carl hoped to meet some- 

 where abroad. 



Carl sailed down the rough blue Lake Vetter to 

 Jonkoping. He did not linger to enjoy the pleasant 

 promenades of Jonkoping by the lake, nor to ascend 

 Dunkellar Hill with its beautiful views, where now are 

 numerous villas with well-planted gardens, testifying 

 to the profits of the roofing-paper and match-making 

 trades ; nor was he tempted by the merely picturesque 

 charms and waterfalls of Husquarna. But the famous 

 iron-mountain of Taberg did not lie much out of his 

 way at least not in his mode of travelling, which was 

 very frequently on foot. So leaving the high-road, 

 which even at that date we may assume to have been 

 a bridle-path, he bore away westward, following the 

 course of the stream flowing from Taberg into the 

 Vetter, and ascended Taberg at about eight English 

 miles south of Jonkoping, from which height, 1,096 

 feet, 1 he gained a grand survey of the forests of SmSland, 

 1 It is 1,129 feet above the sea. 



