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A DIARY 
Of the Authors Journey from Stockholm to Ukaborg ; thence to the 
North Cape : and back again. 
P | ^HE following daily account of my journey is chiefly intended 
for the ufe of future travellers in the fame part of the 
world. Such information, though of itfelf uninterefling, I know 
from experience, is valuable to thofe that find themfelves in fimilar 
circumftances. It brings them previoufly acquainted with the 
objedls they are to encounter, keeps their attention more vigilant, 
and may lead them to make additional obfervations, which they 
would probably pafs over, if every thing they met with were to¬ 
tally new, and as fuch intruded upon their notice. It may like- 
wife ferve as a fort of index to the foregoing work, or as a com¬ 
panion to the map. 
The diftances are given in Sw T edifh miles, of which 10 
2 -fifths are equal to one degree of the equator: confequently the 
proportion of a Swedifh to an Englifh mile is as 10 2-fifths 
to fixty-nine; for fixty-nine Englifli miles are reckoned to a de¬ 
gree of the equator: therefore one SwTedifh mile contains nearly 
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