The seals are able to penetrate through the ice from beneath, lying on their backs under water, be it ever so thick, but cannot make their way into it from above.
END OF THE TOUR.
APPENDIX.
No I.
A BRIEF NARRATIVE
OF
A JOURNEY TO LAPLAND,
Undertaken with a View to Natural History, in the Year 1732, at the Expense of the Royal Academy (of Upsal); by Charles Linnæus, Student of Physic and of Natural History, as drawn up by Himself to lay before the said Academy.
The Royal Academy of Sciences having, last Spring, permitted my humble memorial to be laid before them, respecting the project of a journey to Lapland, with a view to the improvement of natural history, and having honoured the same with their approbation, appointing me to undertake
the expedition. I feel it my duty, after having accomplished my journey, most respectfully to present to the Academy a narrative thereof.
For the sake of brevity and clearness I shall divide my subject into three parts.
1st, A journal of my tour.