64 
LINNAEUS 
Nature has long concealed in her distant chambers 
under the Pole star, and this leads one to suspect that 
many splendid and useful sorts are to be found when 
fortune and industry are allied. Therefore since 
these spots are full of iron ore, here should be dis¬ 
covered valuable mineral waters, serviceable as water¬ 
ing places, with perhaps other and rarer properties. 
Still further would be an opportunity to investigate 
what Nature performs in the living body by means 
of the especial situation of the country, weather and 
the exhalations of the earth, besides the bitter cold 
and heat in yearly change, etc. 
Linnaeus continues, “ that one sees clearly that no 
tract in the world offers a more splendid field for 
observation in all three kingdoms of nature, so that 
one with a good conscience cannot hold back there¬ 
from. It is therefore desirable that somebody should 
be sent to investigate Lapland, fitly chosen and as 
intelligent as the journey requires, else it would be 
in vain, if one of other views were sent. For the 
purposes of the investigation the following personal 
attributes are requisite : 
a. He should be a native of Sweden, in order that 
foreigners should not usurp what the natives have 
paid for. 
p. Young and light, that he may run vigorously 
up the steep hills, and back into the deep valleys. 
y. Healthy, that he with greater ease and comfort 
may carry out, each day, his appointed task. 
S. Untiring, not only in pleasant times, for 
he may come short of food, he must be on foot, 
stooping, enduring heat and thirst, with many other 
difficulties, it being no pleasure jaunt for a fine 
gentleman. 
€. Without other duties, for here is constant duty, 
to outdo the best. 
£ Unmarried, so that he may yenture on the 
waters of the rivers, etc., without thinking about 
possible fatherless children. 
