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taken- leave of his relations, friends, and conn- 

 try. The Royal Academy of Sciences made 

 him a prefent of a fine Englifh microfcope, a 

 thermometer, a moft exad geometrical fcale, 

 and many other inftruments. Count Piper^ Mr. 

 Peter Wargentin^ the one prefident, the other 

 fecretary m the Royal Academy, and many of 

 its members, vied with each other in contribut- 

 ing to the equipment of the young botanift. 

 The diredor of the SwedijJi Eaft India company, 

 Clas Grilly generoufly offered him a free pafTagc 

 and board, in one of his ihips bound for Poj-to 

 in Portugal: and tht Marquis G rimaldi gmntcd 

 him a handfome allowance towards the expences 

 of the Tour to Madrid. Loefling was well made, 

 tall, ftrong, and of a healthy conftitution, un- 

 impaired by debauches and luxury, all which 

 promifed him good fuccefs in his labourious un- 

 dertaking in a foreign climate. The leave he 

 took of his tutor at Upfaky was very affeding 

 and moving. The nineteenth of March, 1751, 

 he left for ever his native country, went round 

 the Baltic, pafTed the Sounds crofTed the German 

 ocean, the bay of Bifcay^ and at lafl arrived 

 May the eighteenth, at Oporto. Some Fuci and 

 marine prod unions of the Vermes Clafs, amufed 

 our natural hiftorian during his palTage j but the 

 Portugueze Flora was an ample field for his in- 

 quiries, 



