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The Floral King. 61
sure he would better himself and serve our country.
If the herbs which grow on foreign Alps, and
yearly are imported by our druggists, such as
Victorialis, Spica celtica, Crocus, Dancus creticus,
Bistorta, Helleborus niger, Doronicum, Carlina, &c.,
with satisfaction are to be planted, I hold that
Lapland is the place. In Lapland Theologians
would have the best opportunity for describing
the many birds which gather here during the
summer from the whole world; and here to utilize
the aquatic birds and their feathers, which so
greatly benefit the foreigner but leave us nothing
but the mere beholding, while they here lay their
eggs and bring up their young. Of the natural
history of the Filfvas we are more ignorant than
of that of the Paradise bird, the Hermilines, the
Alpine mice, dogs and snipes, and several, Lapland
arrivals’ traits are still shrouded in a dark mist.
Rauder has never yet been drawn, and much more
which belongs to the Fauna. We here find a
people who live only on animals and fish, without
“salt, without vegetables; thus, in such a cold climate,
they must have their peculiar maladies and their
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