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property of a certain great court, whose offer does not exceed 2000 

 dollars. A plate representing this monster is to be found in the 



Thf.saurus Naturalium, published by M. Seba at Amsterdam, 



LINN^US'S TOUR THROUGH DALECARLIA, 



HIS CURIOUS TRAVELLING COMPANIONS. 



We will now give an account * of the scientific tour, which was made 

 last year [1734] all over the Swedish province of Dalecarlia, and of 

 which we have received the principal particulars from Linnaeus, 

 who lately passed through this city on his way to Leyden. 



Before the latter set out in the summer months on this expedition, 

 undertaken by advice, and at the expence of Baron Nicholas Reu- 

 THERHOLM, Govcmor of Dalecarlia, several students applied and request- 

 ed to accompany him. He chose seven of the ablest and most zealous of 

 them, that he might proceed on his way with more convenience, and 

 formed in this manner a kind of a caravan of naturalists, and enafted 

 v/'nh their assistance certain laws and regulations, for the due 

 observance of which every member made himself answerable. For 



See Hamburgische Berichte 1735, Page 586, No. 71. 

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