3S JOURNEY TO LAPLAND. 



the trackless wilds, presented themselves in the journey of Linnaeus, 

 but none of the above mentioned charms and rural delights, of which 

 Lapland is entirely destitute. 



LiNN.EUs arrived at Lulea, where he took rest for a few days, and 

 .then continued his travels. Coming thither he had visited' the western 

 provinces on the Gulph of Bothnia, and he now dire6led his way to- 

 wards the eastern distritls through Tornea into Finland. 



Having passed through Carleby, Vasa, Christianstadt and Bjoerneborg^ 

 he reached Abo, the capital of the grand dutchy, where he crossed 

 over the Gulph, and after six months travels, of more than eight 

 hundred German leagues in extent, he returned to Upsal, towards the 

 latter end of Otlober 1732. He had so well managed his travelling 

 money, as to have been able to defray out of it the expences of get- 

 ting made a large fur dress, called by the Swedes Lapmud, and for 

 which he brought rein-deer-skins with him. 



The intention of his journey was most completely fulfilled. Lap- 

 land is a country as poor in plants as in other produ£lions. Linnaeus 

 had, however, discovered upwards of one hundred of the former, 

 which were either entirely unknown or undescribed before. But the 

 objefts of his attention were not only confined to plants ; they included 

 also the curiosities of the animal reign ; the domestic arrangements and 

 usages- of the inhabitants, their mode of livings and many other civil 

 and moral subjects. He set down all these remarks in the diary 

 which he kept on his journey. This valuable produftion has likewise 

 remained unprinted. It is written in the Swedish language; and after 

 the author's death it became, with his natural colleftion and other manu- 

 scripts, 



