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tormenting Knat. The days there are long 5 and 

 the beautiful meteorous nights indulge them with 

 every opportunity of collecting fe rriinute a food: 

 whilft mankind is very fparingly fcattered over that 

 vaft northern wade. 



Why then mould Linnaus^ the great explorer 

 of thefe rude deferts, be amazed at the myriads of 

 water fowl th-at migrated with him out of Lap- 

 land ? Which exceeded in multitudes the army of 

 Xerxes \ covering, for eight whole days and nights* 

 the lurface of the river Calzx*. His partial obfer- 

 vation as a botanift, would confine their food to 

 the vegetable kingdom, almoil denied to the Lap- 

 land waters •, inattentive to a more plenteous table 

 of infect food, which the all bountiful Creator had 

 fpread for them in the wildernefs f. 



numinis munificentia. Aman. acad. IV. 1. 5. M. de Man- 

 pertuis makes the fame obfervation, Ce ruiffeau nous con- 

 duiiit a un lac fi rempli de petits grains jaunatres de la grof* 

 feur du Mil que toute fon eau en etoit teinte. Je pris ces 

 grains pour la Chryfalide de ouelque infe&e, &c. Qewvres ds 

 M. de Maupertuis, III* II 6. 



* Flora Lapponica, 273. Aman. acad. IV. £70. 



f It may be remarked, that the lakes of mountanous rocky 

 countri s in general are deftitute of plants : few or none are 

 feen on thofe of Switzerland ; and Linnteus makes the fame 

 obfervation in refpect to thofe of Lapland ; having, during 

 his whole tour, difcovered only a fingle fpecimen of a lemna 

 trifulca, or ivy leaved duck's meat. Flora Lap. No. 470. a few 

 of the fcirpus lacufiris, No. 18. or bullrufh ; the alopecurus 

 geniculates, No. 38. or flote foxtail grafs ; and the ranunculus 

 aquatilis, No. 234. which are all he enumerates in his Prole- 

 gomena to that excellent performance. 



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