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French philofophers fecured immortal fame to Sir 

 Ifaac Newton. At length, after having fufFered 

 incredible fatigues and hardfliips, in climbing pre- 

 cipices, pafllng rivers in miferable boats, fuffering 

 repeated viciffitudes of extreme heat and coJd, 

 and not unfrequently hunger and thirft ^ he re- 

 turned to Tornoa in September. He did not 

 take the fame route from ^ornoa as when he 

 came into Lapland^ having determined to vifit, 

 and examine, the country on the eaftern fide 

 of the Bothnian gulph : his firft ftage, therefore, 

 was to W^, in Eafi Bothnia from thence to Old 

 and New Carkhy, 84 miles fouth from Ula, He 

 continued his route through Wafa^ ChriftianftedtT^ 

 and Biorneburgby to Abo^ a fmail univerfity in Fin- 

 land, Winter was now fetting in apace, he there- 

 fore croffcd the gulph by the ifland of Aland., and 

 arrived at Upfal in November, after having per- 

 formed, and that moftly on foot, a journey of ten 

 degrees of latitude in extent, exclufive of thofe de- 

 viations which fuch a defign rendered neceflary. 



The refuh of this journey was not publiflied 

 till feveral years afterwards, during his refidence 

 in Holland. For the prefent he only gave in to the 

 academy a Fkrula Lapponica^ confifting of a very 

 few pages in the A5ia Upfalienfia for the years 1732 

 and 1734. In this little catalogue the plants are 

 difpofed according to the fyflem which was after- 

 wards called the Jexual ; and which we fliould not 

 have mentioned here, but to prove how early Lin- 

 naus had laid the foundation of that method, which 

 he afterwards wrought up to fuch perfection. 



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