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and children. We likewife had the good fortune of being in¬ 
troduced to Dr. Deutfch, a perfon of gentle and engaging man¬ 
ners, and at the fame time very fkilful in his profeffion. He is a 
great lover of the ftudy of natural hiftory, and had by his own in- 
duftry made a very pretty colle&ion of Swedifh and Laplanaifli 
infecfts, and one of plants: he had alfo made fome progrefs in 
collecting birds. He had conftru&ed a fmall electrical machine, 
and his own ingenuity had fupplied the want of thofe means 
which are fo eafily obtained in the more fouthern countries. 
Upon becoming acquainted with the DoCtor, we found him fo 
intelligent a man, that we w r ere defirous to induce him to become 
one of our party, and therefore made the propofal to him, which 
he accepted ; more indeed, I believe, from a love of fcience, and 
particularly of natural hiftory, than from any other confideration. 
His profeffion would not admit of a longer abfence than a fort¬ 
night ; but, to oblige us, he confented to go with us as far as 
Kengis-bmk. We now only wanted one individual to complete 
our caravan. We had in Mr. Caftrein a very good botanift ; in 
Mr. Julin, a mineralogifl; in Dr. Deutfch, an excellent entomo- 
logift ; in Colonel Skioldebrand, a landfcape painter. As for me, 
I charged myfelr with the article of ornithology, and the office of 
digefting the communications of my fellow'-travellers, who every 
evening gave me the names of the fpecimens they had found, 
with their own obfervations upon them. Never had any journey 
a more promifmg appearance at the outfet; nor could Lapland 
ever have a chance of being explored in a manner more agree¬ 
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