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scientific travels. geography. 62.r>
connection with various special sciences as the Swedes, and this without having
any practical objects in view. We may now commence with a description of
certain explorations of the kind, which have had — directly or indirectly —■
geographical importance.
Adolf Erilc Nordenskiöld.
By G. von Rosen.
In the great geographical discoveries at the dawn of modern times Sweden took
no part worth mentioning. Within the boundaries of the country itself, however,
m its northern districts, and more especially Lappland, colonizing work of a very
extensive character has fallen to its lot. The first to give any account of those
regions was Olaus Magni (1490—1558); he traversed Northern Skandinavia in
1518 —19, penetrating at least as far as Över-Torneå. The large map of the
Northern Regions, published by him at Venice in 1539, and still more his
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