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LINNiEUS'S LETTER 



T O 



Mr. O S B E C K, 



SIR! 



I HAVE read your excellent book with 

 pleafure and furprize. It cannot be dis- 

 puted, that few books are fo agreeable to the 

 public as accounts of voyages, where fome- 

 thing new is always found to gratify the read- 

 er's curiofity, and enlarge his underftanding. 

 But moil of the voyages hitherto publifhed, by 

 impofing barbarous names on their difcoveries, 

 have rather fharpened our defire after know- 

 ledge, than afforded any real inflruction. You, 

 Sir, have every where travelled with the light 

 of fcience : you have named every thing fo 

 precifely, that it may be comprehended by the 

 learned world ; and have difcovered and fet- 

 £ tied 



