XU PREFACE. 



Linnaeus. As not a word throughout 

 the whole was written for the use of any 

 person but the author, the reader may 

 perhaps be disappointed at not meeting 

 with any thing hke a professed descrip- 

 tion of Lapland, or even a regular de- 

 tail of the route of the traveller. What 

 was familiar to Linna?us, either in books 

 or in his own mind, is omitted. By 

 the brilliant sketches he has left us in 

 his Flora Lappoiiica, published a few 

 years after his return, we see what he 

 miffht have written had he here under- 

 taken to communicate his own know- 

 ledge or remarks to others ; and the 

 same may be said of such of his disser- 

 tations, in the Amocnitates Academicce, 

 as professedly treat of subjects belong- 

 ing to Lapland. The curious and 

 learned reader will, however, here and 



