3 8B LINNAEUS’S TRAVELS IN LAPLAND. 
« Lapland, not only for all kinds of fossils and minerals, but also 
« for all the trees, herbs, grasses, mosses, plants, animals, birds, 
« fishes, worms, &c. and to observe with equal attention the mode of 
“ living of the inhabitants, its influence upon their health, and every 
“ thing worth notice. He has already set out on his journey to 
« Lapland last May, at the expence of the academy, and highly 
“ pleased wi his enterprize.” 
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Upsal, June 24, 1733. 
« CHARLES LINNaEUS, our skilful physician and botanist* has 
« returned for some time past, from his travels in Lapland , which he 
« undertook at the expence of the Royal Academy. He travelled by 
« water as well as by land altogether to a distance of six hundred and 
“ seventy Swedish miles. He remained some time in the mountains of 
“ Lapland, through which he travelled one hundred and fifty Swedish 
“ miles on foot. When he came under the seventieth degree of polar 
« longitude, on the frozen sea, he saw the sun eight whole days without 
« setting. Among the principal curiosities which he met with on his 
« return, he reckons a flying white squirrel, which he saw near Tawastia. 
« Since his return, he occupied himself with a Flora Laponica, in 
« which he gives an account of all the rare and unknown flowers of 
« Lapland. This work, which is already finished, consists of thirty-six 
« sheets, and eighty plates. 
* See Hamburgische Bcrichte , for 1733, No. 64, page 523. 
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