Lapland alone furnidled me fome time ago 
with a hundred rare plants'. I have gathered 
lately as many in the i (lands of the Baltic, and 
in Scania as many more, never befom ob- 
ferved in Sweden. Nor can it be doubted, 
but that our other provinces conceal in their 
unfrequented corners other new plants, va- 
luable for ufe or beauty, tho’ hitherto over- 
looked, if a diligent and acute inquirer be 
not wanting. I will not fay with the poet, 
“ Happy the rural inhabitant,” but “ happy 
the Swedifh inhabitant if he knew but what 
good he is poffedfed of V* 
The zoologiii will no where meet w r ith a 
place more delightful, and more fuitable to 
his views, than that where docks of all kinds 
of birds in (pring time, and fummer, gather 
b Our countrey has been feajrched by fo many able botanids 
for plants, that what is faid here cannot be applied to us. 
But a curious traveller might be of great fervice in relation 
to plants even here, by observing, and making generally 
known what plants are peculiarly cultivated in fome coun- 
tries. Thus for inftance they fow lotus, 13. Linn, birds- 
foot trefoil, Ray fyn. 334 in Herefordfhire, which grows all 
over England on dry paftures, and is found very good for 
fheep, tho’ every where elfe, as far as i know, negleded. 
Again they make great ufe of the cotmnon vetch in Glo- 
eellerfhire, chiefly for horfes, ‘feeding them with it upon 
the fpot, and eating it up time enough for turneps the fame 
year. 
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