Uppsala

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(§18) My clothes were a small coat of linsey-woolsey cloth, unhemmed, with small cuffs and a collar of woollen plush. Neat trousers of leather, a wig with a pigtail. A green fustian cap with ear-flaps. Short boots on my feet. A little leather bag about 1 foot long, somewhat less in width, of white-tanned leather, with eyelets on one side to fasten it up and to hang it by. In this I put 1 shirt, 2 pairs of halfsleeves, 2 nightshirts, an inkhorn, pen-box, microsope, spyglass, a gauze hood to protect me from midges. This notebook. A bundle of paper stitched together in which to place plants - both folio-sized. A comb. My 'Ornithology', 'Flora Uplandica' and 'Characteres generici'. A long hunting-knife at my side and a small gun between my thigh and the saddle. An eight-sided stick on which measurements were marked, a wallet in my pocket with a pass from the chancellery in Uppsala and a letter of recommendation from the Society.

(§19) 12th. Thus I departed from the town of Uppsala on the 12th May 1732, which was a Friday, at 11 o'clock a.m., when I was 25 years old all but half a day. Now all the earth was beginning to rejoice and smile, now beautiful flora was coming to sleep with Phoebus:

(§22) I travelled alone from Uppsala, that old provincial seat with its castle, destroyed by fire in 1702, from which the view is such that you will seek far to find its equal. The plain lies all around for about a mile and a half, green with Ceres, and beyond that there are hills and finally forests.

(§406) 8th June. Day of Obligation. Umeå. Whereas the ague is fairly rare up here, St Anthony's Fire is so common that everyone complains of being afflicted by it. In Uppsala and Stockholm they have the ague, in Lund severe fevers that end in the ague.

(§1161) 10th. Towards 1 o'clock in the afternoon I arrived safely in Uppsala.

Practical data about this location:

• Written: Uppsala
• GPS (lat,lon): [59.85882, 17.63889]
• Geoname: 2666199