39^ LINN^US IN 1734 AND I735. 



his own part he chose to be their governor, to superintend the whole 

 enterprise, and to take care that every body discharged the funftions 

 of the office allotted him. 



NahemanNj the first companion, who had made himself known by a 

 good dissertation on the Darlecarlian language, (de Lingua Dalecarlica) 

 was to aft as geographer, to give an accurate description of all the 

 villages, mountains, lakes, rivers, roads and districts, &c. to say morn- 

 ing and evening prayers, and to preach on Sundays. 



Clewberg, the second companion, as naturalist, was to make ob- 

 servations on the four elements ; such as on the quality of the water, 

 on mineral springs, on sources, on the snow which never melts in the 

 Alps in summer, on the height of the mountains, the weather, the fruit- 

 fulness or sterility of soil, &c. &c. He was also charged with digesting, 

 as secretary, the transaftions of the society in a proper written form. 



Fahlstedt, the third companion, as Metallist (Metallurgus), besides 

 colle£ling stones, minerals, earths, all kind of petrifaftions, &c. &c. 

 was further employed as groom, to saddle, water and attend the 

 horses. 



Stohlberg, an able student of physic, as botanist or herbalist 

 was to examine and to preserve as well as possible, all the trees, plants, 

 herbs, grasses, and fungi, which occurred to his view. He was 

 moreover appointed to precede the company as a quarter-master, to 

 procure them good lodgings, and to provide every necessary for their 

 reception. 



. To Emporelius, the fifth companion was assigned the office of 

 Zoologist, to describe and depi6l the quadrupeds and all the animals 

 living as well in the water as on the land, such ^Svfialies, biirds, worms, &c. 



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