And now, Henry, I suppose you pic¬ 
ture to yourself our hero, much delight¬ 
ed with the prospect of an expedition, 
which was to give him an opportunity 
to pursue his researcles in a country 
hitherto little visited. 'A tour in Lap- 
land, however, under the circumstances 
in which Linnaeus undertook it, would 
have presented little temptation to a 
less adventurous mind. The perils of 
the Lulean desert were neither few nor 
trifling ; and the sum provided to de¬ 
fray the expenses of the journey, afford¬ 
ed no means of solacing the difficulties 
of the traveller by indulgences. The 
purse presented hint for this purpose, 
by the society whose mission he was to 
execute, contained no more than one 
hundred Swedish platens, drSl dollars, 
at the utmost. With this sum he trav¬ 
ersed a wilderness region for six months; 
and even economized so well as to se¬ 
cure from it enough to purchase a com- 
