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reduced to indigence. And in the year tygg, he made 
excurfions in the mountains round Upfal, accompanied by 
fome of his former pupils, fur the pnrpofe of investigating 
and arranging the minerals of his native country. In 
Dalecarlia, fo celebrated for its copper mines, he became 
known to Baron Reuterholm, governor of the province, 
■whojuftly appreciating the great flcill and acutenefs of 
obfcrvaiion of his young friend, feat him to the eastern 
parts of Dalecarlia, and thence to Norway, to explore 
and report the mines of that diftridl. In this journey 
he was accompanied by the Baron’s two fons, and fome 
other {Indents, who were defirous of acquiring a know- 
ledge of this branch of fcience. Some obfervations on 
the pafture herbs of this diftrift were afterwards pub- 
lifhed in the fecond part of the Amxnitates Academicx, 
under the title of Pan Suecus. 
On his return from this journey he remained at 
Fahlun, and gave ledures on mineralogy and the art of 
affaying inetals. And during his refidence, which he 
deferibes as being about a month, he became acquainted 
with Moraeus the learned phyfician of that diilrid. 
Aforaus was reputed rich, and had two daughters. With 
the eldeft of thefe, Sarah Elizabeth, he contrafted an 
intimacy, and whom in about five years afterwards he 
married. The father however, wifely perceiving the 
unfinillied hate of the lover’s education, and his inability 
to profit by the profeflion he had choftn for want of a 
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