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SECTION III. 
■LINNAEUS 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.— CONTINUES HIS PEREGRINATION THROUGH THE 
NORTHERN ALPS.— ANECDOTE.— COMPARISON WITH BARON HALLER’S JOUR- 
NEY IN THE ALPS. — LINNjEUS 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- 
LAS ROSEN BECOMES HIS ADVERSARY.— THEY FORBID HIM TO READ LEC- 
TURES.— HE CONCEIVES THE DESIGN OF STABBING ROSEN.— DISTRESSED AND 
UNFORTUNATE CONDITION OF LINNAEUS— ANECDOTE— FATAL SENSIBILITY 
OF HIS MIND— MAKES FRIENDSHIP WITH BARON REUTERHOLM AT FAHLUN.— 
MAKES A JOURNEY THROUGH DALECAR T A — H ISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF HIS 
JOURNEY— JOURNAL UNPRINTED. — LINNjEUS RETURNS TO FAHLUN.— GIVES 
LECTURES ON MINERALOGY— CONTRACTS FRIENDSHIP WITH DR. MOR.EUS. — 
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 
declined the offer of going such a journey. But Linnsus, 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 rejected the offer. In- 
deed the whole sum devoted to this expedition did not amount 
to 
