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During the whole paflage he gave ledlures on 

 botany, to his pupils, and made them acquaint- 

 ed with the ufe of the Linnasan fyflem ; the 

 Philofoj)hia hotanka was his Syllabus^ and the 

 young phyficians feemed to apply very clofely 

 to the ftudy of botany. At his landing the 

 colledion of plants and feeds, the examination 

 and defcription of every new objed:, and the 

 drawings of Tuch things, as were either new or 

 not well drawn before, gave fufEcient occupa- 

 tion to Loefling and his affiftants. 



During fix months refidence 2.t Cumana^ he 

 made an excurfion through New Barcelona^ and 

 the miflions of Piritu^ towards the river Guayana^ 

 where he continued his obfervations during two 

 or three months •, from thence he travelled to 

 the mifTion of Ctircni^ and then returned to Cu- 

 jmna y but he and the whole company fell fick 

 at their return, of a fever or ague, of which 

 he had every day an accefs. Tiiis being re- 

 moved, he fell ill again with a tertian, having 

 got wet feet in a marfh. Some time after this 

 was cured, he got again a quotidian fever, which 

 he could not get rid of for a long while. His 

 chief fhewed great care and tendernefs for his 

 health, and defired him abfolutely not to write, 

 till afternoon or in the evening, the only proper 

 time for this bufmels in thofe hot climates : for 



Loefling 



