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MEMOIR OF LINNjEUS. 
side with hooks and eyes, so that it could be opened 
and shut at pleasure. This hag contained one shirt, 
two pair of false sleeves, two half shuts, an inkstand, 
pencase, microscope, and spying-glass ; a gauze cap 
to protect me occasionally from the gnats, a comb ; my 
journal, and a parcel of paper stitched together for draw- 
ing plants, both in folio ; my manuscript ornithology. 
Flora Uplandica, and Characteres Generici. I wore 
a hanger at my side, and carried a small fowlingpiece, 
as well as an octangular stick, graduated for the pur- 
pose of measuring. My pocketbook contained a pass- 
port from the governor of Upsala, and a recommendation 
from the Academy." During the rest of this excursion, 
he made use of the mode of travelling which was best 
suited to the roads and passes, and performed the 
greater part of it on foot. Many hardships were neces- 
sarily undergone from the climate and nature of the 
country. His life was often periled in crossing rapid 
rivers, upon the rude boats or rafts constructed by the 
inhabitants, and endangered in a dreary waste of 
almost boundless snow, where the tracts of the rein- 
deer, and the degree of heat retained by their dung, 
were the only guides to the huts of their masters ; and 
he was even once fired on by a native on the coast of 
Finmarck. Notwithstanding these difficulties, he has 
eulogized the country in the Flora Lapponica, as all 
that could be desired, happy and smiling, free from 
many diseases and the scourge of war, and possessing 
plentiful resources in itself; while the inhabitants are 
said to be innocent and primitive, displaying the great- 
