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SECTION III. 



LINN^US RECEIVES A SUM OF MONEY TO DEFRAY HIS TRAVELLING EXPENCES.— 

 DIFFICULTIES ATTENDING THE SCIENCE OF BOTANY.— DESCRIPTION OF HIS 

 JOURNEY.— DANGERS AND OBSTACLES.— VISITS THAT PART OF LAPLAND 

 WHERE SOME FRENCH ASTRONOMERS ASCERTAINED SOME YEARS AFTER THE 

 FIGURE OF THE EARTH.— CONTI NUES HIS PEREGRINATION THROUGH THE 

 NORTHERN ALPS.— ANECDOTE.— COMPARISON WITH BARON HALLER'S JOUR- 

 NEY IN THE ALPS.— LINN^US RETURNS TO UPSAL.— EXTENT OF HIS JOURNEY, 

 AND OF THE BENEFITS WHICH RESULTED FROM IT.— PUBLISHES HIS FIRST 

 WORK, THE FLORA OF LAPLAND.— JOURNAL OF HIS TRAVELS REMAINS UN- 

 PRINTED.— IS ELECTED A MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF UP- 

 SAL.— BEGINS TO DELIVER LECTURES.— GAINS APPLAUSE.— IS ENVIED.— NICHO- 

 IAS ROSEN BECOMES HIS ADVERSARY.— THEY FORBID HIM TO READ LEC- 

 TURES.— HE CONCEIVES THE DESIGN OF STABBING ROSEN.— DISTRESSED AND 

 UNFORTUNATE CONDITION OF LINN^US.— ANECDOTE.— FATAL SENSIBILITY 

 OF HIS MIND.— MAKES FRIENDSHIP WITH BARON REUTERHOLM AT FAHLUN.— 

 MAKES A JOURNEY THROUGH DALECARIA.— HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF HIS 

 JOURNEY.— JOURNAL UNPRINTED.— LI NN^US RETURNS TO FAHLUN.— GIVES 

 LECTURES ON MINERALOGY.— CONTRACTS FRIENDSHIP WITH DR. MORyEUS.— 

 FALLS IN LOVE WITH HIS DAUGHTER.— THE YOUNG LADY GIVES HIM MONEY 

 TO ENABLE HIM TO TAKE HIS DEGREE OF DOCTOR AT A DUTCH UNIVER- 

 SITY.— PREPARES FOR HIS DEPARTURE. 



A Journey through Lapland is certainly one of the most difficult and 

 most disagreeable that can be made in Europe. A thousand might have 

 decHned the offer of going such a journey. But Linn^us, from 

 his love of fame, and fired with an enthusiastic desire of making 

 some farther progress in his favourite science, deemed himself happy 

 in such an opportunity. No premium or reward having been of- 

 fered for making this journey, and the travelling money being very 

 small, were additional motives to have rejefted the offer. in- 

 deed the whole sum devoted to this expedition did not amount 



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