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fettled in this country in remote ages, being en- 

 tirely a diftind people from the Laplanders. In 

 this diftrid he afcended a noted mountain called 

 Wallevari^ in fpeaking of which he has given us 

 a pleafant relation of his finding a fingular and 

 beautiful new plant (Andromeda tetragona) when 

 travelling within the ar6tic circle, with the fun in 

 his view at midnight, in fearch of a Lapland hut. 

 From hence he crofTed the Lapland Alps into 

 Finmark^ and traverfed the fhores of the North fea. 

 as far as Sailers, 



Thefe journies from Lula and Pitha^ on the 

 Bothnian gulph, to the north fliore, were made on 

 foot, and our traveller was attended by two Lap- 

 landers \ one his interpreter, and the other his 

 guide. He tells us that the vigour and ftrength of 

 thefe two men, both old, and fufficiently loaded 

 with his baggage, excited his admiration, fmce they 

 appeared quite unhurt by their labour, while 

 he himfelf, although young and robuft, was fre- 

 quently quite exhaufted- In this journey he 

 was wont to lleep under the boat with which 

 they forded the rivers, as a defence againft rain, 

 and the gnats, which in the Lapland fummer are 

 not lefs teazing than in the torrid zonrs. In de- 

 fending one of thefe rivers, he narrowly efcaped 

 periihing by the overfetting of the boat, and lofb 

 many of the natural produdlions which he had 

 colie6led. 



LiNN^us thus fpent the greater part of the 

 fummer in examining this ar6lic region, and thofe 

 mountains, on which, four years afterwards, the 



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