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iiilhed with Swedifli money amounting to fomethlng lefs 
than eight pounds, he left Upfal, and proceeded on 
horfeback as far as Hernofand, the principal town of 
Angermania on the Bothnian gulph. There he remain- 
ed i few days anxioufly waiting the return of milder 
weather,- and vifited at fome rifque of his life the fingu- 
lar caverns on the top of mount Skula. From this place 
he travelled on foot ; and reaching Amea he left the 
public road, and took his rout through the vatt woods 
which lie on the weft in order to traverfe the more 
fouthern parts of Lapland. Alone, unacquainted with 
the language or the manners of the people among whom 
he was about to commit himfelf, undaunted by the dan- 
gers and difficulties around him, and difdaining the hor- 
rors which the imaginations of his friends had magnified 
before him, he launched into thofe wild and dreary re^ 
gions, trufting to providence for his fafety and the hof- 
pitality of the inhabitants for his fuppoxt. 
Having reached the pine mountains which border oft 
Norway, and after encountering many hardffiips and 
privations in a country barren, mountainous and ftony, 
he returned to the weftern part of Bothnia, and vifited 
Pithea and Lula on the great gulph. Here he proceeded 
to vifit the ruins of the temple of Jockmock in Lapmark, 
and thence traverfed the Lapland defert, deftitute of viU 
lages, cultivation, roads or any conveniencies, and peo- 
pled only by the inhabitants of a few ftragling huts. 
In this diftria, whbn under the feventieth degree of 
