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A BRIEF NARRATIVE 



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A JOURNEY TO LAPLAND, 



Undertaken with a View to Natural History, in 

 the Year 1732, at the Expense of the Royal 

 Academy (of Upsal); by Charles Linn^us, 

 Student of Physic and of Natural History, as 

 drawn up by Himself to lay before the said 

 Academy. 



J. HE Royal Academy of Sciences having, 

 last Spring, permitted my humble memo- 

 rial to be laid before them, respecting the 

 project of a journey to Lapland, with a 

 view to the improvement of natural history, 

 and havino; honoured the same with their 

 approbation, appointing me to undertake 



