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of his means obliged him to travel alone, destitute of all the con- 

 veniences of life. He transmitted an account of his journey to 

 the Royal Society of Science at Upsal, and with difficulty pro- 

 cured a trifling sum from that body ; he was more successful in 

 giving private lectures on mineralogy and botany ; and when 

 desirous of visiting Dalecarlia in 1734, he was accompanied by 

 many pupils. One of them, Browall, afterwards bishop of Abo, 

 advised him to endeavour to marry a lady whose wealth m'ight 

 render him independent : he paid his addresses to the daugh- 

 ter of Dr Moraeus, who was considered rich, and, to his great 

 astonishment, as he himself said, it was arranged that their mar- 

 riage should take place in three years, and that he should spend 

 the interval in traveUing. 



He then proceeded to Holland, where he received the degree 

 of M. D., and became connected with the most distinguished na- 

 turalistsof the age, — Gronovius, Van-Royen, Burman, and Boer- 

 haave : he astonished them by his information, and the ease with 

 which he named the plants which were laid before him. Clif- 

 fort, who had the finest garden in Holland, induced him to live 

 with him in order to procure his assistance in its management, 

 and it was in that magnificent establishment that his ideas re- 

 garding vegetation were enlarged. He there published many 

 important works, Hortus CliffbrtianuSf &c. Assisted by the 

 generosity of his protector, he went to England, where he be- 

 came acquainted with Dillenius. On his return to Holland, 

 at the close of 1736, his reputation was already so great, that 

 the Academie des Curieux de la Nature, on receiving him into 

 their body, conferred on him the title of Dioscorides the Second. 

 His method was already adopted by the botanists of Holland 

 and publicly taught at Leyden. He afterwards travelled to 

 Paris, and formed an acquaintance with the brothers Antony 

 and Bernard Jussieu, where it appears that some attempts were 

 made to induce him to settle ; but he preferred returning to 

 Sweden> and the great difficulty which he experienced in speak- 

 ing foreign languages seems to have affected this resolution in 

 no inconsiderable degree. 



On his return home he was treated as a stranger, and the per- 

 son who was already considered by one part of Europe as the 

 Prince of Botanists, could not at first either find a chair in the 



