Produced by Simon Gardner, Robert Connal, Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Transcriber's Notes In this Plain Text version symbols from UTF-8 (Unicode) character sets are used. If the following symbols do not appear correctly, a unicode font should be used, or a different version of the e-book selected: β, γ, κ, λ (Greek symbols) Œ, œ (oe-ligatures) ă (lower case a with breve) Italic typeface is represented by surrounding _underscores_. Small caps typeface is represented by UPPER CASE. Archaic or inconsistent spellings, hyphenation and punctuation are retained as printed except where typographical errors have been corrected: any corrections are listed at the end of the book. Note that the style of capitalised species names are retained as they appear in the original. * * * * * _Lachesis Lapponica_, OR A TOUR IN LAPLAND, NOW FIRST PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF THE CELEBRATED LINNÆUS; BY JAMES EDWARD SMITH, M.D. F.R.S. ETC. PRESIDENT OF THE LINNÆAN SOCIETY. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. "Ulterius nihil est, nisi non habitabile frigus." OVID. _LONDON_: PRINTED FOR WHITE AND COCHRANE, HORACE'S HEAD, FLEET-STREET, BY RICHARD TAYLOR AND CO., SHOE-LANE. 1811. JOURNEY TO LAPLAND. In the latter part of this day, _July 15th_, I set out on my return from the low grounds of Norway. The heat was very powerful as we began to ascend the mountains. When we reached what had seemed to us from below the summit of a hill, we saw just as lofty an eminence before us, and this was the case nine or ten successive times. I had no idea of such mountains before. The elevation of this hill cannot be taken by any geometrical instrument, as the summit is not visible, even at some miles distance. I believe its height must exceed a Swedish mile, but to climb it was worse than going two miles any other way. Had we not frequently met with such abundance of water, we should have been overcome with fatigue. In this ascent I found the little _Astragalus_ (_alpinus_) with a white flower, and the Little Gentian (_Gentiana nivalis_).