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ralift, in thofe extenfive and unexplored deferts ! The grand diver- 
fity and contrariety of climates; the fudden tranfitions of the fea- 
fons; thofe luminous meteors which, in winter, fupply the place 
of the fun ; and that fun which, in fummer, never quits the hori¬ 
zon—Are not thefe phenomena fitted to excite admiration ? 
In thofe regions every thing wears an afpeCt of novelty. The 
rivers and lakes are flored with their particular kinds of fifhes ; 
the mountains abound in mines of every fpecies. The rein-deer, 
the glutton, and the lemming, are animals unknown in other 
parts of Europe. The ornithologift meets there with birds pecu¬ 
liar to thofe climates; and the entomologift at every ftep finds, 
for the enrichment of his collection, rare and precious infeCts. 
Even the penetrating eye of Linnaeus left fomething in this walk 
for future difeovery. A number of infeCts, even of the order 
Jepidoptera (butterflies), was afterwards difeovered by Mr. Quen- 
zel and others, and form very valuable articles in collections of 
this kind: and although the Pliny of Sweden has been minutely 
attentive to the objects of botany, and fearched in the moft diftant 
corners for every indigenous plant which feemed 
-Born to blufh unfeen, 
And wafte its fweetnefs in the defert air, 
{till his pofterity find fufficient employment, in the clafs of cryp- 
togamia, which when analyfed by the chemifts, may open new 
fources of induftry in our manufactures and commerce. 
If the traveller poffefs that enchanting art, by which, * on his 
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