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commended him. This tour had been made for 

 the firft time, with the fame view, by the elder 

 Rudbeck^ in 1695, at the command of Charles XI 5 

 but untortunately the whole fruit of that expedi- 

 tion, except two or three copies of the Campi Elyfii^ 

 perifhed in the dreadful fire of Upfal^ in 1702. 



As this expedition could not take place till the 

 fucceeding fummer, LiNNi5:us fpent his winter with 

 his friends and relations in the Ibuth ; and particu- 

 larly paid a vifit, in January 1732, to his former 

 preceptor Stoheus^ at Lund \ whom he left in Fe- 

 bruary, to vifit his native province of Smaland^ and 

 returned to Upfal about the middle of April, to 

 prepare for his journey. He left Upfal the 13th of 

 May, and took his route to Gevalia^ ov Gevels, the 

 principal town of Geflrida, 45 miles diftant from 

 Upfal. Hence he travelled through Helfingland^ into 

 Medalpadia^ where he made an excurfion, and af- 

 cended a remarkable mountain, before he reached 

 Hudwickfwald^ the chief town of Helfmgland, From 

 hence he went through Angermanland^ to Hernofand^ 

 a iearport on the Bothnic gulph, feventy miles dif- 

 tant from Hudwickfwald, When he had proceeded 

 thus far, he found it proper to retard his journey, 

 as the fpring was not fufficiently advanced \ and 



took this opportunity of vifiting thofe remarkable 

 caverns on the fgmmit of mount Skula^ though at 

 the hazard of his life, 



When LiNN^^us arrived at Uma^ in Wefi Bothnia^ 

 about 96 miles from Hernofand^ he quitted the 

 public road, arid took his courfe through the 

 woods weft ward, in order firft to traverfe the moft 

 fouthern parts of Lapland, Being now come to 



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