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TRAVELS
No. II.
“¢ Gallia mihi lucem dedit, et liberum Anglia portum; uttaque me
** Germania, Grecia Magna Minorque, mons Jovis, ac Barcellona,
“* Herculifque columnx, ambe Afiz, Italia, Africa, hifque oppofita
“ Melite, Euxina et Mzotica, Cafpia, Baltica nec non littora viderunt,
*¢ vidit Polus Aréticus ipfe, et mihi inocciduum oftendit Lapponia fo-
“lem ; proque cibo et potu carnem et lac rangiferinum prebuit, ut
‘* Tartaria olim preebebat equinum.
“¢ Hac feribebat ad Jukasjerviam rediens ex Torniavenfi lacu Aubris
*¢ de la Motraye, Magne Britanniz fubditus, 13 Junii, 1718.”
Mr. Motraye feems to have been a traveller of confequence.
It appears from his biographer, that he lived in particular habits
of friendfhip with Charles the XIIth, king of Sweden. When he
printed his Travels in England, he does not feem to have been
quite pleafed with his infcription at Jukasjervi, which is neither
verfe nor profé (as he would make us believe that he wrote it
extempore), and he has altered it in the following manner :—=
*¢ Me genetrix tenuit bis denis amplius annis,
s¢ Gallia, me Italia, Africa terra, Britannica regna,
s Ambe Afiz, Melite fterili vicina Cofyre,
** Utraque me Germania, Grecia Magna Minorque,
6 Urbes Tarraco, Barcinon, Herculezeque columne,
s¢ Kuxina et Moeotica, Cafpia, Baltica nec non
s¢ Littora viderunt ; vidit Polus Arcticus ipfe,
“¢ Ac mihi inocciduum oftendit Lapponia folem,
« Proque cibo ac potu carnem et lac rangiferinum
«© Prebuit,
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