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book extant, except the Codex at Wolfenbuttel, to 

 which, however, it is infinitely superior. It is written 

 in silver -letters on purple vellum ; and the boards are 

 silver. The letters, however, in many places have 

 eaten through the vellum on which they were written. 

 We saw a remarkable manuscript of the Edda, which 

 has been the subject of a controversy between Pro- 

 fessor Schlozer, in Germany, and the late Chevalier 

 Ihre.* 



In the same room with these manuscripts is placed 

 a very large and valuable chest, carefully locked 

 with several locks, chained and sealed, containing all 

 the private papers of the late king, which he ordered 

 here before his death, and left to be opened fifty 

 years after his death. 



We then dined with the family of M. Wetterstedt, 

 the governor of Uppland, he himself being at present 

 at Stockholm. After dinner, went to see the collec- 

 tion of Professor Thunberg, the Japanese traveller. 

 He is in bad health, and very old, so we did not see 

 him : he lives in the house that formerly belonged to 

 Linneus.t We saw also the garden and greenhouses, 

 where there is a small collection, not in bad order, 

 formerly arranged by that great man. The green- 

 house and garden are to be transferred to the chateau, 

 where handsome buildings are already erected ; but 

 as only a certain sum yearly is allotted, the work goes 



* See above, p. 185. 



t Carl -Peter Thunberg, the great Swedish botanist, born at Jon- 

 koping in 1743 ; died at Upsala in 1828. A list of his works will be 

 found under his name in the ' Nouvelle Biographic Generale.' 



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