

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS 



O F 



SIR CHARLES L I N N £, 



KNIGHT OF THE POLAR STAR. 



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F /his great luminary of natural fcience, 

 born to lift up the awful veil of nature, and to give a 

 permanently fyftematic arrangement of her materials, 

 whatever can now be known has been colleded with 

 much diligence by Dr. Pultney aad Dr. Stoever: and 

 ijt is principally from thcfe and other fourcec that the 

 following fketch has been derived. 



Charles Von Linne was born on the twenty-fourth 

 of May,t 1707, at Roefliult, a fmall village in the 

 province of Smaland in Sweden. The remoteft know- 

 ledge we have of his dirp£l anceftry is derived froin 

 Benge Ingemarfon, a peafant in the parilh of Hwitaryd. 



f In Mr. Trapp's tranflation of Stoever'* life, he is faid to 

 have been born on the third of May, 



Yy 2 



