TRAVELLING, &c* tg 
tiling hitherto unheard of, unfeen, i myfelf faw 
with thefe eyes, and was furprifed. 
We admire the abundance of coral oil the 
Indian Ihores, yet the port of Capellus in 
Gothland alone equals, nay exceeds thofe riches 
of the eaft. I have feen deep ftrata of corals ex- 
tending many furlongs, many miles along its 
ihores* 
Botanifts, who have travelled over the 
greateft part of the globe in fearch of the trea- 
fures of the vegetable kingdom, have yet left 
many plants for us and our pofterity to dif~ 
cover in thefe our regions.. For there is fcarce 
any where a greater variety of moJfes y lichens , 
fuci) and fungi> than with us % and the moft 
Curious botanifts are now diligently employed 
in contemplating thefe minute plants* 
Whoever beheld, or defcribed our diapen - 
fia ? who the llafia unlefs Micheli alone ? 
Thefe two kinds of plants grow with us, and 
the latter efpecially is found in great plenty 
about Fahluna, What traveller, that is not 
' totally ignorant in botany, does not go from 
Paris to Fontainebleau to fee thofe very rare 
^rchis 9 s y feme of which reprefent helmets, 
others knats, others flies % all of them fo exact- 
ly, fo wonderfully, that there feems nothing 
C % want- 
