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fortune which his wife brought him, and the fale of his 

 ■works, together vvjth nuinerous rich prefents he occafi- 

 ppally received, Linne became ^t lafl a very wealthy 

 inan. His falary was double during the latter part of 

 his life, by Guftavus the third, wholikewife fettled on his 

 family a liberal ellatc of landed property. He purchaftd 

 the villa of Hammerby, a finall diftance from Upfal, 

 which for the laft fifteen years of his life he made his 

 fummer refidence, and where he kept his colle£lions of 

 jiaturai hiftory. 



The lafl public exertion of Linne, was a beautiful 

 oration delivered before the univerfity, when he refigned 

 ^is ofhce of Redpr. This was in the latitr end of the 

 year 1772, in the fixty-fith year of his age. 



Difeafe and the imbecilities of age, began now to 

 Itiak^ hafly devaftation on his conftitution. During the 

 later years of his life, he was occafionally tormented by 

 excruciating fits pf the flone, and nervous head ^ch ; twice 

 ^e was feized with apploplexy, which rendered him par- 

 tially paralytic, and much impaired his memory. At 

 lall he became a wretched and melancholy ruin in intel- 

 Je^ as well as bodily powers, and on the tenth of January 

 1778, in a gentle flumber, this great man funk ipto the 

 grave. 



The death of Linne w;is regarded in Sweden as 3 

 national calamity, Tl^e whole univerfity went into 



