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and Uddevalla, where many interesting objects were 
found. Next came Trollhattan, but its waterfall did 
not much impress Linnaeus, who had seen the Lap- 
land rivers; then by Hunneberg to Vanersborg, 
turning homeward by Wermland, Karlstad and 
Filipstad, where there was not much to record; then 
through Nora and the ironworks of Wedevag, where 
the travellers were hospitably entertained by Count 
Jacob Cronstedt at his estate of Fullero. On the 
nth August the travellers reached the boundary line 
of Uppland, and in the evening they came to Uppsala. 
The account of this journey appeared in the spring 
of 1747, but before that, Linnaeus was commissioned 
to undertake yet another journey, at the public 
expense, this time to the southern province of Skane 
(Scania). This time Linnaeus stipulated to be accom¬ 
panied by a paid amanuensis, and eventually they set 
out on the 29th April, O.S. (10th May, N.S.) They 
were joined by the student Olof Soderberg, and 
during a portion of the time by the Lund student, 
Lars Aretin, as a companion of Soderberg. This 
time Linnaeus travelled with greater comfort than 
previously, as he bought a coach to journey in, rather 
than to ride on horseback. Orebro and Vaxjo were 
again passed through; and Linnaeus spent three days 
at Wirestad with his sister Anna Maria, her husband 
being Linnaeus’s old tutor, Gabriel Hook; thence he 
came to Stenbrohult, on the 15th and 16th May, with 
a feeling of melancholy. “ Here,” he says, “ I found 
the birds vanished, the nest burnt, and the young 
scattered, so that I could hardly recognize the place 
where I was brought up, and where my late father 
laid out his garden. I, who twenty years before 
knew every inhabitant, now found hardly twenty left, 
who were youngsters during my childhood, and they 
were now with grey hair and white beards,” but he 
had the joy of seeing his only brother occupying his 
father’s place, as rector of the parish. 
Since the date of his eldest son’s last visit to the 
