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in his tender pupii -, but that even his enthufiafm 

 would be communicated to his young friend, 

 and fo it really happened. In this ftation Loef- 

 ling made the beft of his time, and of the op- 

 portunity of improving by the Dodlor's ledures, 

 at which he was afiifting very regularly ; the reft 

 of the time left to him, he fpent in feeing the moft 

 ingenious and diligent ftudents, whofe friend fhip 

 he acquired, and in vifiting the botanical garden 

 feveral times a day, and at dinner he propofed 

 queries and dubia to his tutor, by whom he now 

 was efteemed worthy of the greateft intimacy 

 and friendlhip ; for the dodlor obferved in his 

 pupil, according to his own expreffion, '' a 

 " mind as pure as gold, and without the leaft 

 " duplicity of manners or words, which were 

 " exadly correfponding with his moft fecret 

 " thoughts." Fie was not effeminate, and re- 

 lilhed neither the pleafures of the table, nor 

 vanity in drefTing 5 he flepr as comfortably on 

 the hardeft bench, as in the fofteft bed •, and the 

 finding of a fmall plant or mofs, repaid him 

 amply the fatigue of a long excuifion. 



In the fummer term of 1748, the Doclor gave 

 to each of his fcholars a branch of botany for 

 its illuftration, as a tafl-c. Loefling got the buds 

 of trees for his allotted ihare, as this fubjed: had 

 never been well inquired into, and he was the 



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