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_ The Floral King. 57
that I, with the murmuring children of Israel,
wished for meat, yea, a morsel of bread. The
Norwegian people did not receive me very favour-
ably, therefore I did not remain with them very
long. Now I intend, God willing, to proceed to
Abo, and from thence to Upsala, to which God
Almighty help me. I am already surfeited of so
much travelling I am quite done up by too much
running with the Lapps in the Alps, with whom I
battled together more than 100 miles (650 English).
“T am tired even of writing, and reserve the rest
for oral communication, and beg you, sir, my
honoured professor will graciously accept of what I
write in haste.”
Fifteen years after this, (in 1747,) Linnzeus wrote
a pro memoria to the ‘‘ Royal Academy of Science”
in Stockholm in reference to this his early travel in
Lapland, the Academy having solicited his opinion
upon the province in question, (presumably now
translated for the first time into English).
“The Royal Academy of Science has communi-
cated to me, as being their member, an extract from
the protocol of 17th October, 1747, by the Royal
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