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xnarfhes of Sweden, had buried itfelf in his f!e(h, and 

 produced fo violently painful an inflammati<»n, that his 

 life was for fome time defpaired of. He was however 

 faved by tW'fkill of Siobxus. 



At the hour of retirement to reft he fecretly took 

 with him from the library of his patron fuch books ss 

 might gratify his appetite for his favourite (ludy, and 

 thefe he read as long as the portion of light allowed him 

 iafted. Stobaeus by lome means or other became ac- 

 •quainted with the irregularity of his midnight hours, 

 and from the natural vivacity of his difpofition fufpe£l- 

 ing the innocency of his employments, entered one night 

 abruptly into his apartment, and to his furprife found 

 him furrounded with and attentively reading the works 

 of the beft writers on botany* After this time he was 

 allowed the unreflrained ufe of the library* 



With his generous friend Stobxus he remained 

 fomething more than a year: but defirous of enlaiging 

 his knowledge by the poiTellion of more certainties, he 

 removed to Upfal. The profefTors at that time to which 

 he attached himfelf, were the junior Olaus Rudbeck, and 

 Roberg. Under the guidance of thefe learned ipen 

 Linnasus made rapid advances in the different branches 

 of medicine and natural hiftory, and regardlefs of what 

 might happen to-morrow, revelled in all the gratifi- 

 cations of intel!e£tual luxury. In courfe of time how- 

 ever, the flender means with which he had been enabled 



