remote country a person capable of guiding him in this respect. The Rev. Eric J. Grape, a Swedish Missionary among the Laplanders, and Minister of Enontekis, to whom the author was indebted for the most benevolent acts of hospitality, transcribed for him the whole of his own statistical account of the district over which he presided. This Manuscript', to which frequent reference has been made in the following account of Lapland, is deposited in the Public Library of the University of Cambridge.

Other acknowledgments from the author are now due. To the Rev. and learned Charles James Blomfield*, B.D. he is indebted for the permission, of which he has availed himself in the beginning of the account of Sweden, of making extracts from the Manuscript Journal of his lamented and accomplished Brother, the late Rev. E. V. BLOMFIELD; whose loss the University of Cambridge, in common with the literary world,

(2) This intelligent Clergyman is mentioned by Von Buch, who found him afterwards Minister of NederCalix, in the north of SWEDEN. -See Travels through Norway and Lapland, p. 381. Lond. 1813.

(3)" Enontekis Sokns Beskrifning."This excellent description of the Pastorate of Enontekis is perhaps the same which Von Buch mentions, as having appeared afterwards in the Transactions of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Stockholm.

(4) Since, D.D. and Bishop of Chester,-EDITOR.

so deeply deplores. To his friend, and fellowtraveller in a part of the journey here described, the Rev. PROFESSOR MALTHUS, celebrated for his great work on Political Economy, he owes a similar privilege. Professor Malthus allowed the use of his own Manuscript Journal for the description of Norway: the extracts, it is true, consisting frequently of short and detached passages, are not separated from the body of the text; but they will not, on this account, be the less conspicuous. His friend Mr. CRIPPS has also communicated whatsoever documents he possessed, whether in the form of manuscript notes, maps, plans, or drawings. Mr. C. P. HALLSTRÖM, one of the geographers employed by Baron Hermelin in completing his maps of Sweden and Finland, afforded the original design from which the Map of the Mouths of the Torneå (facing p. 340 of this volume) has been engraved. A few other obligations might also be stated, but they will be found noticed in the course of the Work.

CAMBRIDGE, December 15, 1818.

ADVERTISEMENT

RELATING TO THE

CONCLUDING QUARTO VOLUME OF THESE TRAVELS.

It has not been permitted by Providence, that

Dr. CLARKE should close with his own hand the series of Volumes containing the Narrative of his Travels. This estimable and gifted man expired, after an indisposition of some continuance, but from which no fatal termination was at first apprehended, on the ninth of March

1822.

The sorrow occasioned by this melancholy event, to those numerous friends to whom the kindness of his nature and the many excellent qualities of his heart had long endeared him, has been equalled by the regret universally expressed for the loss of one who had established so many and strong claims on public esteem and admiration. But the confined space, which could be here allowed, would not admit of a complete delineation of the several features of his distinguished character: that task must be

left to other hands; and, it is hoped, will be shortly accomplished, in a manner worthy of the subject, and satisfactory to the Public.

The appearance of the Concluding Volume was unavoidably delayed during the life-time of Dr. CLARKE, by the necessity, under which he was placed, of attending to the duties of his public situation in the University of Cambridge; and, latterly, by the increasing severity of his bodily indisposition. After his decease, those of his friends, to whom his Journals and Papers were entrusted, examined them, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the materials they contained were of such a nature as to allow them to proceed in the continuation of the Work. On finding them sufficiently copious, they thought themselves justified in completing the Volume. Twelve Chapters had been prepared for the press by the Author himself, and printed under his direction: the rest' have been composed from the observations contained in his Manuscript Journals, which have been strictly adhered to, with a few exceptions: and in the

(1) Referring to the last Three Chapters of Vol. XI. of this Octavo Edition of his Travels.

parts where they were deficient, some assistance has been derived from the remarks found also among his papers, which had been communicated to him by friends who had visited the North of Europe.

It

appears,

from the documents found among his Manuscript Papers, that he intended, in the Preface to the Concluding Volume, to refer to the numerous testimonies of Travellers who had confirmed the account of Russian manners and character which he gave in his First Volume. It appears, too, that he had received a variety of private Letters from persons who had visited Russia, amply confirming the general truth of his statements. As the Author did not live to produce these testimonies himself, in the manner he had proposed, it has been thought most consistent with propriety to abstain here from all discussion of the subject. Already, the Public have full means before them of judging of the correctness of his representations: and no person who has the most remote knowledge of his character, will ever suppose that he was, on any occasion, or in the smallest circumstance, guilty of wilful misrepresentation, or that he wrote