Xll LIFE OF KALM. 



express my gratitude to the person who has communi- 

 cated anything, and not to give out as my own that 

 which belongs to another, partly that it may stand to my 

 informant's [p. 14] own account, in case it be found to 

 be little in accordance with the truth. In reference to 

 that which I have not seen myself, but have been obliged 

 to rely upon the accounts of others, I have in addition 

 commonly used the word berattades or sages or skal, 

 but that which I have either seen myself, or all have 

 related with one mouth, I have said that it is so. 



" I have studiously omitted descriptions of plants, 

 animals, and rocks, orters, djurs, och stenarters. 

 Most readers regard them as wearisome ; besides they make 

 the book larger and dearer ; but I have always introduced 

 where I have got to know of any, the uses of plants, 

 animals, and minerals. The descriptions I will, please 

 God, communicate in a Latin work at some future time. 

 Abo, the 13th July, 1753." 



Kalm, who had married in America, in 1750, a lady 

 from Sweden, died on the 16th November, 1779, without 

 completing his account of his travels. Thus says Odhelius 

 (Aminnelse Tal, p. 25) : "The description of the American 

 " travels which he published by degrees during the same 

 "period, gave him additional occupation. We have in his 

 " lifetime seen three parts of it come out (1753-56-61), and 

 " the fourth which he had ready and written with his own 



