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Swedes lived. Kalm afterward published three volumes on his 

 travels. In these he describes very minutely everything he saw, 

 the people, their industries and customs, the conditions and na- 

 ture of the country through which he traveled. Of the animals 

 and plants he met with, he gave only short descriptions, as he in- 

 tended to publish these more extensively in a scientific work in 

 Latin. In the diary of his stay in Eacoon, he describes what the 

 Swedes called the spoon-tree, because the Indians were said to 

 make spoons from its wood. Kalm adds: "The English call this 

 tree Laurel, because its leaves resemble those of the Laurocerasus. 

 Dr. Linnar-us, conformable to the peculiar friendship and goodness 

 with which he has always honored me, has been pleased to call 

 this tree, Kalmiafoliis ovatis, corymbis terminalibus^ov Kalmia 

 la ti folia." 



With the exception of a few days spent on a revisit to Phila- 

 delphia and a short visit to Penn's Neck, Kalm staid at Eacoon 

 the whole time till May 21, 1749. From June 3 to eluiie 10 he was 

 in New York. From there he sailed in a yacht to Albany. From 

 there he traveled through Saratoga, Fort Nicholson, Fort Anne, 

 Fori St. Frederic, Fort St. John, and Prairie de la Magdelene to 

 Montreal, at which place he arrived on the 2Jrth of Jul3'. He ar- 

 rived at Quebec the 5th of August, visited several neighboring 

 places, and returned to Montreal the loth of September. 



The three volumes of his '"En resa till Norra Amerika" de- 

 scribes his travels up to this period. Evidently he intended to 

 publish the account of the remainder of his staj'in North America, 

 but it was never done, probably on account of lack of funds. In 

 the preface is given a synopsis of his travels. From this we find 

 that he returned to Philadelphia the same fall. In 1750 he visited 

 western Pennsylvania and the shores of New Jersey. After this he 

 undertook his second long journey, through New York, the Blue 

 Mountains, to Albany, then along the Mohawk Eiver, visited the 

 Iroquois Indian nations, the Mohawks, Oneidas, Tuskaroras, 

 Onandagas, and Kayugas, saw the shores of Lake Ontario and 

 Niagara Falls, and returned to Philadelphia in October. In a 

 letter to Bartram he has given a vivid and most interesting de- 

 scription of his impressions at Niagara. 



In 1751 he returned home by the way of England, and arrived 

 at Gothenburg on the 16th of May. He resumed his duties as 

 professor at the University of Abo. In his private little garden 



