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LINNAEUS 
which he quickly quitted as there was nothing to 
detain him. Then he went to old Lule by sea, as 
there was not a horse to be had. There he remained 
till the 25th June, and occupied himself with examin¬ 
ing a medicinal spring, also studying botany and 
zoology. 
The summer in all its splendour had now come, 
the weather being fine and sunny. Trees and bushes 
rushed into leaf, amongst them being the numerous 
willows of the north, not hitherto seen by Linnaeus. 
“ Though the summer is shorter here than elsewhere, 
it is more delightful. Never in all my days have I 
felt livelier than now.” 
It was now time to start for the fells. In a big 
boat towed upstream by four or five fellows (to whom 
he had to pay as much as they demanded) by the 28th 
June he arrived at Storbacken on the river Lulea, 
where he crossed the Lapland frontier, and hence by 
a long and tedious way on foot to Jockmock. Here 
it was that Linnaeus for the first time had a glimpse 
of snowclad fells, though still far distant. Evidently 
he looked at them after he left Jockmock and reached 
Randijaur, for at the former place he regarded them 
as nothing but obtuse and long high mountains, which 
reared themselves one over the other. Farther on, he 
saw, on the 1st of July, the midnight sun, which he 
thought was not the least of Nature’s miracles. 
“What foreigner would not wish to see it?” After a 
pause at Kedkevara, where a silver vein was formerly 
worked, he came to Qvickjock, where the famous 
pastor’s wife, Pastorinna Grot, received him kindly. 
Here he obtained a Lapp, who served him as inter¬ 
preter and guide, and to whom he gave a week’s 
food for the festival which awaited him among his 
fellow Lapps. 
So on the 6th July, he drew towards the fells, the 
first he ascended being Vallivare. What he saw there 
surpassed his boldest expectations. He thought him¬ 
self in a new world, not knowing whether he was in 
