LINN/EUS IN I734 AND I735. 
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property of a certain great court, whose offer does not exceed 2000 
dollars. A plate representing this monster is to be found in the 
Thesaurus Naturalium, published by M. Seba at Amsterdam . 
LINNAEUS’S TOUR THROUGH DALECARLIA. 
HIS CURIOUS TRAVELLING COMPANIONS. 
W £ will now give an account * of the scientific tour, which was made 
last year [1734] all over the Swedish province of Dalecarlia , and of 
which we have received the principal particulars from Linn^us, 
who lately passed through this city on his way to Leyden. 
Before the latter set out in the summer months on this expedition, 
undertaken by advice, and at the expence of Baron Nicholas Reu- 
therholm, Governor of Dalecarlia, several students applied and request- 
ed to accompany him. He chose seven of the ablest and most zealous of 
them, that he might proceed on his way with more convenience, and 
formed in this manner a kind of a caravan of naturalists, and enabled 
with their assistance certain laws and regulations, for the due 
observance of which every member made himself answerable. For 
* See Hamburgisebe Bericbte 1735, Page 386, No. ji. 
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