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thp StateSj and was afterwards communicated to 

 the public. 



LiNN^us, on his return, entered upon the pro- 

 fefforfliip, and pronounced before the univerfity his 

 Oration de Peregrinationum intra Patriam necef- 

 Jjtate^ Od. 17, 1 741 3 in which he forcibly difplays 

 the ufefulnefs of fuch excurfions, by pointing out to 

 the iludents that vaft field of objeds which their 

 country held out to their cultivation ; whether in 

 geography, phyfics, mineralogy, botany, zoology, 

 or economics ; and by fliewing the benefit that 

 muft accrue to themfelves and their country as re- 

 wards to their diligence. That animated fpirit 

 which runs through the whole of this compofition, 

 renders it one of the moft pleafing and inftrudive 

 of all our author's produclions. That intimate 

 knowledge which Linn^us himfelf had acquired 

 of his own country by his repeated travels (fraught 

 as he was too with every requifite for m.aking ufe- 

 ful obfervations) enabled him to point out with 

 the utmofb precifion the moft proper objeds of 

 inveftigation, in every part of nature ; and his 

 love to his country gave a zeal to his wifties, that 

 Ihewed him on this occafion to great advan- 

 tage \ not to add, the aid arifing from that felf- 

 congratulation, which he muft feel, having juft 

 gained, by his late appointment, the fummit of his 

 wilhes. 



; ; . The Iter CElandicum et Gotlandicum, in 

 8% pp. 284, were printed at Stockholm^ in 1745, 

 -in the Swedijh language; as was alfo the Iter 

 ScANicuM^ in 1751, 8% pp. 435. We cannot 

 help regretting that thefe Itinera have not made 



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