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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 Racoon, 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. Linneus, conformable to the peculiar friendship and goodness 
with which he has always honored me, has been pleased to call 
this tree, Kalmia foliis ovatis, corymbis terminalibus or Kalmia 
latifolia.”’ 
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 Racoon 
the whole time till May 21, 1749. From June 3 to June 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, 
Fort St. Frederic, Fort St. John, and Prairie de la Magdelene to 
Montreal, at which place he arrived on the 24th of July. He ar- 
rived at Quebec the 5th of August, visited several neighboring 
places, and returned to Montreal the 15th 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 stay 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 thishe 
undertook his second long journey, through New York, the Blue 
Mountains, to Albany, then along the Mohawk River, 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 4 
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 
