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we should ascribe to it that peculiar fondness for 

 circular forms which is so characteristic of their early 

 churches, and which may have been derived from the 

 circular mounds and stone circles which were in use in 

 Sweden till the end of the tenth century.' 



Does this solve the hard fact of Linnaeus's coldness 

 to art that he was purely Aryan? But surely the 

 Greeks were Aryan too. Or, does Fergusson, having hit 

 upon an idea, knock his head against it too hard ? c The 

 cathedral of Upsala can scarcely be quoted as an ex- 

 ample of Scandinavian art, for when the Swedes, in 

 the end of the thirteenth century (1278), determined 

 on the erection of a cathedral worthy of their country, 

 they employed a Frenchman, Etienne Bonneuil, to 

 furnish them with a design and to superintend the 

 erection, which he did till his death. After Bonneuil's 

 death the French principles of detail were departed 

 from.' The university buildings are not individually re- 

 markable, although their grouping between the quaintly 

 simple lines of the towered castle on its commanding 

 hill and the rich Renaissance twin towers of the cathe- 

 dral spiring up the valley, together with the undulating 

 and well-planted slopes of the ground on the north- 

 western bank of the river, makes up a very pleasing 

 prospect, with many picturesque points for the memory 

 to retain. 



Carl's immediate professors were Olaus Rudbeck 

 (junior) and Roberg, both old men. Under them he 

 made rapid advances in the different branches of medi- 



