X PREFACE. 



the acknowledgements with which most 

 of them have overpaid the trouble. 



The manuscripts of Linnaeus were no 

 less freely consulted; but great was our 

 disappointment to find the Lachesis Lap- 

 ponica written in Swedish. For a long 

 time therefore it remained unexplored. 

 At length Mr. Charles Troilius, a young 

 gentleman in the mercantile line, resi- 

 dent in London, undertook the task of 

 translating it. The manuscript proved 

 to be the identical journal written on 

 the spot during the tour, which cer- 

 tainly rendered it the more interesting ; 

 but the difficulty of decyphering it 

 proved from that very circumstance 

 unexpectedly great. The bulk of the 

 composition is Swedish, but so inter- 



