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58 The Floral King.
Directors over the Ecclesiastical Department of
Lapland, thereby to learn’ my candid opinion.
“T am not a little pleased the Royal Directors
vouchsafe to turn their eyes to the cultivation of
the Laplands, since they constitute.a considerable
portion of Sweden, if not half of all Scandinavia.
We look with astonishment at what manufactories
have accomplished in the southern countries of
Europe; but here we find a thousand times more of
what nature displays before the eyes, although the
most of it until our times has remained unknown.
To get this explained, there is no other means than
by the Theologos who will be residing there.
“They could teach us the height of the most
towering Alps towards the western main, and of
which those opposite Torrtjord are so high that,
as regards myself, I doubt if any surpass them in
Europe.
‘They could find cut if the swow on the mountains
yearly increases, and from its crevices calculate how
many years and centuries it has lain.
“They would make attempts with thermometers
through the Lapps to find out what is the severest
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