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JOURNEY TO LAPLAND. 
to expose himself, but wait the full return of summer. His courage 
was blind to difficulties, and so impatient his desire of making some 
new discovery, that he was irresistibly induced to visit those trads 
which had seldom or never been visited before. 
Having waited a few days at Hernafand, the chief town of Anger- 
mania, on the Bothnian gulph, in expectation of milder weather, he 
commenced his wanderings on foot, and travelled alone through the 
above-mentioned province of Lapland. Trees, herbs, animals, moun- 
tains; in short, every novelty and curiosity of Nature which offered 
itself, became the objeds of his observation and attention. The pro- 
phecies made to him respeding this undertaking he now experienced to 
be but too well founded. Every difficulty which could be thought of 
occurred to cross his enterprizc. The rivers which he was to pass over 
being still swelled, and as rapid as torrents, he frequently found his 
life in danger; the country which is every where interseded with bogs 
and forests could not stop him; all these obstacles were heightened 
by the inclemency of the climate, the want of provisions, and fre- 
quently by that of a sheltering place to rest his head upon in those desert 
trads. Linnaeus thought himself the happiest of men if when tired 
and exhausted with his daily peregrinations he could at night find the 
cot of some Laplander , to still his hunger and to repose his weanel 
limbs ! . . 
Undaunted by all these obstacles and dangers lie continued Ins jour- 
ney through the other provinces of Lapland, through Pilliea and Ulna 
Lapmark. If we consider that this Canada of Sweden does not con- 
tarn a single town, but thirty-two scattered dwellings or villages, we 
shall be able to form to ourselves some idea of the inhospitable and 
desert 
