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unfortunate aflbciates, in Arabia^ and the more fo,' 

 fince his pofthumous pieces, publillied at Copen- 

 higen in 1775? are fufEcient to convince us, that 

 the fruit of that expedition would have been rich 

 and large, had it not been fo unfortunately 

 blafted. 



There were alfo feveral others, who made lefs 

 remote journies for the fame purpofe ; .fuch were 

 Z'. Montin^ who vifited Lula-Lapmark in 1749 5 

 Af. Kcehler^ who travelled into the fouthern part of 

 Italy in 1752; Dr. Solander, who vifited Pitho^ 

 Z^apmark^ and 'Torno-Lapmark^ in 1753, where he 

 made feveral difcoveries, and brought back divers 

 rare plants, and other fubje6ls in natural hiftory, 

 which had efcaped the diligence of his great 

 mafter *, Z). Rolander^ who vifited Surinam and St. 

 Euftatia^ in 1755; A, R. Martin^ who fearched 

 Greenland in 1758, as C. Alftroemer did the 

 fouthern parts of Europe in 1760. We do not 

 mention others, who re- vifited the ifle of Gothland 

 in 1752 and 1760, d.fiGr Linnaeus' s own tour into 

 that place. 



The travels of thefe gentlemen afforded 

 great fources of information, and furniflied ma- 

 terials for our author, that proved very favour- 

 able to the laft editions of his Syjiema Natur^y 

 and Species Plantarum : infomuch, that we Ihall fee 

 him exemplifying, in a much more perfe6t and de- 

 tailed manner, his Syjtem of Nature* 



This work, as far as refpedled the vegetable 

 kingdom, had been feparately and largely exhi- 

 bited, as before mentioned, in the Genera Plan- 

 iarum, and the /pedes given in the feveral Florae of 



our 



