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Boys TRAVELS
and children. We likewife had the good fortune of being in-
troduced to Dr. Deutfch, a perfon of gentle and engaging man-
ners, and at the fame time very fkilful in his profeflion. He is a
great lover of the ftudy of natural hiftory, and had by his own in-
duftry made a very pretty collection of Swedifh and Laplandifh
infe@s, and one of plants: he had alfo made fome progrefs in
collecting birds. He had conftructed a {mall eleCtrical machine,
and his own ingenuity had fupplied the want of thofe. means
which are fo eafily obtained in the more fouthern countries.
Upon becoming acquainted with the Doétor, we found him fo
intelligent a man, that we were defirous to induce him to become
one of our party, and therefore made the propofal to him, which
he accepted ; more indeed, I believe, from a love of fcience, and
particularly of natural hiftory, than fromm any other confideration.
His profeffion would not admit of a longer abfence than a fort-
night ; but, to oblige us, he confented to go with us as far as
Kengis-bruk. We now only wanted one individual-to complete
our caravan. We had in Mr. Caftrein a very good botanift ; in
Mr. Julin, a mineralogift ; in Dr. Deutfch, an excellent entomo-
logift ; in Colonel Skioldebrand, a landfcape painter. As for me,
I charged myfelf with the article of ornithology, and the office of -
digefting the communications of my fellow-travellers, who every
evening gave me the names of the f{pecimens they had found,
with their own obfervations upon them. Never had any journey,
a more promifing appearance at the outfet; nor could Lapland
eyer have a chance of being explored in a manner more agree-
able,
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