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JOURNEY TO LAPLAND. 
the trackless wilds, presented themselves in the journey of Linn^us, 
but none of the above mentioned charms and rural delights, of which 
Lapland is entirely destitute. 
LinnjEus arrived at Lulea, where he took rest for a few days, and 
then continued his travels. Coming thither he had visitedjthe western 
provinces on the Gulph of Bothnia , and he now direfted his way to- 
wards the eastern distri&s through Tornea into Finland. 
Having passed through Carltby , Vasa , Christianstadt and Bjocrneborg , 
he reached Abo , the capital of the grand dutchy, where he crossed 
over the Gulph, and after six months travels, of more than eight 
hundred German leagues in extent, he returned to Upsal, towards the 
latter end of O&ober 1732. He had so well managed his travelling 
money, as to have been able to defray out of it the expences of get- 
ting made a large fur dress, called by the Swedes Lapmud , and for 
which he brought rein-deer-skins with him. 
The intention of his journey was most completely fulfilled. Lap- 
land is a country as poor in plants as in other produ&ions. Linnaeus 
had, however, discovered upwards of one hundred of the former, 
which were either entirely unknown or undescribed before. But the 
objefts of his attention were not only confined to plants ; they included 
also the curiosities of the animal reign ; the domestic arrangements and 
usages of the inhabitants, their mode of living, and many other civil 
and moral subjefts. He set down all these remarks in the diary 
which he kept on his journey. This valuable produftion has likewise 
remained unprinted. It is written in the Swedish language ; and after 
the author’s death it became, with his natural collection and other manu- 
scripts, 
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