216 LINN^US. 



and the following year sent Professors Bilberg and 

 Spole to repeat the observation. 



Leaving that town on the 9th August, Linnaeus 

 proceeded to Kimi, where there was a great salmon- 

 fishery, and continued his journey through East 

 Bothland ; but finding that the Finlanders did not, 

 or would not, understand him, he was obliged to 

 return. He next directed his steps to Calix, and 

 made several excursions in the neighbourhood, not- 

 ing the Finnish names of articles which he might 

 want at the inns, and again ventured to enter East 

 Bothland. He then pursued his way along the east 

 coast, through that district and Finland, visiting 

 Ulea, Brabestadt, Carleby, Christina, and Abo. In 

 the latter place he found one of his class-fellows, 

 Mennander, who was afterwards archbishop of Up- 

 sal, and who furnished him with some money as a 

 recompense for instructions in natural history. He 

 then went by the post-yacht to Aland, crossed the 

 sea of that name, and on the 10th October reached 

 Upsal. 



The whole extent of the journey was about 3800 

 English miles. It is quite unnecessary for us to ex- 

 patiate on the dangers of such an expedition, to ex- 

 tol the courage and perseverance of him w ho accom- 

 plished it, or even to dilate on the important results. 

 '' My journey through Lapland," he says in a sub- 

 sequent notice, " was the most toilsome ; and I con- 

 fess, that I was obliged to sustain more hardship 

 and danger in wandering through this single tract 

 of our northern world, than in all the travels which 

 I undertook in other parts, though these were cer- 

 tainly not without fatigue. But when my journeys 

 were over, I quickly forgot all their dangers and 



