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GENERAL REMARKS 
SECTION XVII. 
Of Minerals. 
¥3 ARON Hermelin, who has publiflied maps of Sweden, Fin- 
land, and Lapland, which we have noticed before, is at pre- 
fent engaged in a work on the Lapland minerals; and we may ex¬ 
pert fomething very fatisfaCtory from the labours of a perfon fo 
w 7 ell verfed in that fcience, and fo accurate and attentive in his 
refearches. Lapland abounds in minerals of all kinds: but it is 
not eafy for a traveller, who is but fuperficially acquainted with 
the fubjeCt, and who is hurried by the fhortnefs of his time, to 
communicate as much information as the reader of his work may 
perhaps be led to look for. I collected in that remote country 
fome ftoncs, or minerals; but foon found them too cumberfome, 
as we were frequently obliged to travel on foot, and have our bag¬ 
gage carried by men. 
When I returned to Stockholm, I laid the fpecimens I had 
kept before Mr. Hyelm, w'ho has the care of the collection of mi¬ 
nerals at that place, and is infpedtor of the mint; and he fhow T ed 
me a great number of minerals brought from the fame country 
by different travellers, and chiefly thofe whom Baron Hermelin 
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