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56 The Floral King.
who use not to miss their mark. I have been in
danger at sea on the western main. I have been in
perils in rivers, &c. Curious has my journey been,
but God help him, who must pay as dearly as I
have for my curiosity. Stones and minerals I have
got a great collection of; many birds, some insects
and fishes; a heap of conchilles and zoophyta, anda
great many herbs.
“When I ascended the Alps I might not have
known whether I was in East or West India, so
entirely was the world around me changed; so
many strange objects appeared. I saw nothing
there, but naked mountains surmount each other;
no forests, no trees, no houses, no wooden in-
closures, no roads, no singing birds, no setting of
the sun; few herbs of what I had formerly seen
were here found; all was new, all strange. Ovidii
descripto etatis auree (if only the snowy Alps be
excepted) seemed to fit guadveva. I was so long
amongst the Alps that I thought I could accustom
myself to the Laplanders mode of living, the
language excepted. Their ‘ miissung,’ which I had
morning, noon and night, I got at last so tired of,
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