LINNAEUS IN I734 AND I735. 
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the aid of the devil. If, for instance, they go out a hunting, and 
wish to know what game it would be best lor them to shoot on that day, 
or in which district they may meet with it soonest, they take their magic 
drum, and having laid a little brass ring upon it, beat it with two small 
sticks, then drop suddenly upon the ground, as it were, in a trance, 
and utter a kind of howl not unlike that of the dogs*. By the 
spot on which the ring happens to fall, they prog ate the good 
or ill success of their chace. 
The second curiosity which he showed us, consisted of an excellent 
collection of inseCts, gathered in his two tours through Lapland and 
Dalecarlia , and neatly pasted upon paper ; their number amounted to 
one thousand, among which there were sixty-five different species of 
flies, besides the inseCt which was known to the ancients by the name 
of Oestrum , — a wasp, of which no modern naturalist had as yet given an 
accurate description, whose size is considerably large, and not unlike 
that of the fly, which makes such great havoc among the rein-deer in 
Lapland , as to kill annually several thousands of them. The Swedes 
would fain give a million of their money for an efficacious remedy to 
extirpate that vermin. 
We have in other respeCts found an opportunity of obtaining an ac- 
count of Linn/EUS, written in good Latin by an eminent Swede; also 
a short description of his last journey through Dalecarlia , and of the 
companions who attended him on that tour, from which we will occa- 
sionally give extracts. 
* Linn je us also informed us, that no Laplander could sing, but instead of singing ut- 
tered a noise, which resembled the barking of dogs. 
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