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The Floral King. 65
that unless the clergy were made to set the example
by using it in their domestic economy the prejudices
of the Laplanders and the settlers would not be
overcome. And thus it is scarcely ever heard of in
Lapland to this day.
Amongst the few people of note Linnzus met
with in the Lapland settlements deserve to be
mentioned Pehr Fjallstro6m, schoolmaster, and after-
wards pastor in the parish of Lycksele, for he had
published a Lapp grammar and dictionary, and
translated into that tongue a primer for children,
the catechism and ritual-book, and the New Testa-
ment, and collected a Lapp hymn-book, which went
through several editions.
It may be interesting to cite that four years after
Linnzus’ Lapland tour, in 1736, Professor Anders
Celcius, together with Messrs. Maupertius, Clair-
mont, Monnier, and Canns, repaired to Lapland to
take scientific measurements by which they, after
six months labour, succeeded in verifying Huygen’s
and Newton’s well founded opinion that the earth
is flat at the poles.
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