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In 1733 he vifited and examined the feveral 

 xnines in Sweden, and made himfelf fo well ac- 

 cjuainted with mineralogy, and the docimajlic art, 

 that we find he was fufficiently qualified to give 

 leftures on thofe fubjedts, upon his return to the 

 univerfity. The outlines of his fyftem on mi- 

 neralogy appeared in the early editions of the 

 Syftema Naturae but he did not exemplify the 

 whole until the year 1768. 



In the year 1734 Linn^us was fent by Baron 

 Reuterholm, governor of Dalekarlia, with feveral 

 other naturalifls, into that province, to inveftigate 

 the natural produdions of that part of the Swedijh 

 dominions. Each gentleman had hi^" particular 

 department afligned ; and they noted daily the ob* 

 fervations made relating to geography, &c. ; but 

 particularly, and as their principal objed, the eco» 

 nomical and natural hiftory, and mineralogy. A 

 full account of thefe obfervatipns was intended to 

 have been publilhed, but the defign was laid afide. 

 It was in this journey that our author firft laid the 

 plan of an excellent inftitution, which was after- 

 wards executed in a certain degree at lead, by 

 himfelf, with the afljftance of many of his pupils, 

 and the refult publifhed under the title of Pan 

 Suecus, in the fecond volume of the Am^enitates 

 Academics, 



After the completion of this expedition, it ap- 

 pears that LiNNu5ius. refided for a time at Fallun^ 

 the principal town in Dakkarlia ; where he tells 

 us that he taught mineralogy, and the docimajlic 

 grt, and pradifed phyfic ; and where he was very 

 liofpitably treated by t)r. More^ the phyfician of 



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