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to foar above the common termination of academical 
(Indies, and to be lifted into the regions of fancy and 
irtvention. At this time he compofed the firft rudiment 
of his immortal fyftem,. under the title of Nuptiae plan- 
tarum ; and his Hortiis Uplandicus, or enumeration of 
plants in the feveral Svvedilh gardens, for the ufe of the 
pupils. He had likewife durirtg his flay at Upfal form- 
ed a friendflirp with Artedi, afterwards fo celebrated for 
his (kill in ichthyology ; a friendlhip which fimilarity of '' 
fortunes and purfuits had faftened with its firmed; bonds. 
In the year 1731, the royal academy of feiences at 
Upfal determined to fend a perfon, properly qualified, to 
examine the natural produdtions of the wild and exten- 
five regions of Lapland. This had already been done 
under the aufpices of Charles XI. by the elder Olaua 
Celfius : but the whole of his colleftions and manu- 
feriptsy together with his intended Campi Elilii,- except 
two folio volumes which were afterwards publilhed by 
Dr. Smith under the denomination of Reliquiae Rud- 
bcckiansE, were deftroyed by the great fire at Upfal in 
the year 1702. This appointment was given to Lin- 
nteus, at the recommendation of RrofelTors Celfius and 
Rudbeck. 
Upon the return of the following fpring, after 
having vifited his parents and his old benefa£tor Stoba^us, 
Linnasus prepared to adventure upon this dangerous and 
Unknown journey: and in the beginning of May, fur- 
