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TRAVELS 
No. II. 
44 Gallia mihi lucem dedit, et liberum Anglia portum; utraque me 
“ Germania, Graecia Magna Minorque, mons Jovis, ac Barcellona, 
“ Herculifque columnae, ambae Afiae, Italia, Africa, liifque oppofita 
“ Melite, Euxina et Maeotica, Cafpia, Baltica nec non littora viderunt, 
44 vidit Polus Ar&icus ipfe, et mihi inocciduum oftendit Lapponia fo~ 
44 lem j proque cibo et potu carnern et lac rangiferinum praebuit, ut 
4 . 4 Tartaria olim praebebat equinum. 
44 Haec fcribebat ad Jukasjerviam rediens ex Torniavenfi lacu Aubris 
44 de la Motraye, Magnae Britanniae fubditus, 13 Junii, 1718.” 
Mr. Motraye feems to have been a traveller of confequence. 
It appears from his biographer, that he lived in particular habits 
of friendlhip with Charles the Xllth, king of Sweden. When he 
printed his Travels in England, he does not feem to have been 
quite pleafed with his infcription at Jukasjervi, which is neither 
verfe nor profe (as he would make us believe that he wrote it 
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extempore), and he has altered it in the following manner« 
44 Me genetrix tenuit bis denis amplius annis, 
44 Gallia, me Italia, Africa terra, Britannica regna, 
44 Ambae Afiae, Melite fterili vicina Cofyrae, 
44 Utraque me Germania, Graecia Magna Minorque, 
44 Urbes Tarraco, Barcinon, Herculeaeque columnae, 
44 Euxina et Mceotica, Cafpia, Baltica nec non 
44 Littora viderunt; vidit Polus Arcticus ipfe, 
44 Ac mihi inocciduum oftendit Lapponia folem, 
44 Proque cibo ac potu carnern et lac rangiferinum 
44 Praebuit, 
