388 LINNiEUS'S TRAVELS IN LAPLAND. 



" Lapland, not only for all kinds of fossils and minerals, but also 

 " for all the trees, herbs, grasses, mosses, plants, animals, birds, 

 " fishes, worms, Sec. and to observe with equal attention the mode of 

 " living of the inhabitants, its influence upon their health, and every 

 " thing worth notice. He has already set out on his journey to 

 " Lapland last May, at the expence of the academy, and highly 

 " pleased with his enterprize." 



June 24, 1733. 



" CHARLES LINNyEUS, our skilful physician and botanist*, has 

 «' returned for some time past, from his travels in Lapland, which he 

 « undertook at the expence of the Royal Academy. He travelled by 

 " water as well as by land altogether to a distance of six hundred and 

 " seventy Swedish miles. He remained some time in the mountains of 

 " Lapland, through which he travelled one hundred and fifty Swedish 

 " miles on foot. When he came under the seventieth degree of polar 

 " longitude, on the frozen sea, he saw the sun eight whole days without 

 " setting. Among the principal curiosities which he met with on his 

 " return, he reckons a flying white squirrel, which he saw near Tawastia. 



" Since his return, he occupied himself with a Flora Laponica, in 

 " which he gives an account of all the rare and unknown flowers of 

 " Lapland. This work, which is already finished, consists of thirty-six 

 " sheets, and eighty plates. 



• See Hamburghche Berichte, for 1733, No, 64, page 533. 



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