PREFACE, 



THE prefent Volume of Profeflbr 

 Kalms Travels through North 

 America, is originally written in 

 the Swedijh language, but was 

 immediately after tran dated into the German 

 by the two Murray %, both of whom are 

 Swedes, and one a pupil of Dr. Linnceus, 

 and therefore we may be fure that this tranf- 

 lation correfponds exactly with the origi- 

 nal. 



Baron Sten Charles Bielke^ Vice prefi- 

 dent of the Court of Juftice in Finland, was 

 the firil who made a propofal to the Royal 

 Academy of Sciences at Stockholm, to fend 

 an able man to the northern parts oi Siberia 

 and Iceland, as places which are partly un- 

 der the fame latitude with Sweden, and to 

 make there fuch obfervations and colledti- 

 ons of feeds and plants, as would improve 

 the Swedijh hufbandry, gardening, manu- 

 a 3 failures. 



