CHAPTER IV. 



UPSALA. 



In the very beginnings of science, the parsons, who managed things 



then, 

 Being handy with hammer and chisel, made gods in the likeness of 



men; 



Till Commerce arose, and at length some men of exceptional power 

 Supplanted both demons and gods by the atoms, which last to this 



hour. 

 Yet they did not abolish the gods, but they sent them well out of 



the way, 



With the rarest of nectar to drink, in blue fields of nothing to sway. 



J. C. MAXWELL. 



UPSALA is distant from Lund seventy-five Swedish, or 

 about five hundred English miles ; from Stenbrohult it 

 is eighty-four miles less. No biographer tells us how 

 Carl made the journey, whether by sea or land, and 

 those who mention it loosely give Michaelmas as the 

 date. 



His previously mentioned pocket-book l says Carl 

 took his departure on August 23, 1728, arriving at 

 Upsala on September 5. It names Ekesio, Skenninge, 

 Orebro, Arboga, Koping, Westerns, Enkoping as his 

 route. The writer carelessly inverts the three last 

 names, which if taken in that sequence would lead him 



1 Belonging to the Linmean Society. 



