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THROUGH LAPLAND. 129
ralift, in thofe extenfive and unexplored deferts! The grand diver-
fity and contrariety of climates; the fudden tranfitions of the fea-
fons; thofe luminous meteors which, in winter, fupply the place
of the fun; and that fun which, in fummer, never quits the hori-
zon—Are not thefe phenomena fitted to excite admiration ?
In thofe regions every thing wears an afpect of novelty. The
rivers and lakes are ftored with their particular kinds of fifhes ;
the mountains abound in mines of every {pecies. The rein-deer,
the glutton, and the lemming, are animals unknown in other
parts of Europe. The ornithologift meets there with birds pecu-
har to thofe climates; and the entomologift at every ftep finds,
for the enrichment of his collection, rare and precious infects.
Even the penetrating eye of Linnzus left fomething in this walk
for future difcovery. A number of infects, even of the order
lepidoptera (butterflies), was afterwards difcovered by Mr. Quen-
zel and others, and form very valuable articles in collections of
this kind: and although the Pliny of Sweden has been minutely
attentive to the objects of botany, and fearched in the moft diftant
corners for every indigenous plant which feemed
Born to blufh unfeen,
And wafte its fweetnefs in the defert air,
fill his pofterity find fufficient employment, in the clafs of cryp-
togamia, which when analyfed by the chemifts, may open new
fources of induftry in our manufactures and commerce.
If the traveller poffefs that enchanting art, by which, on his
Vox, IE. S return
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