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plant, nor was there a struggle to obtain the best or 

 only quarters for the night, as I have seen a party of 

 thirty ' geologues ' in France simultaneously claiming 

 the only rooms to be had in small French townlets, and 

 clearing the neighbourhood of its cafe au lait ; jolly, 

 very, but verily unsystematic. This was likewise a ' jolly- 

 gizing ' trip, as the livery-stable keepers called Professor 

 Sedgwick's adventurous rides with his train of pupils. 

 Linnaeus set the fashion of such excursions, picnic 

 jaunts, in which he and his pupils enjoyed nature, capping 

 verses or quotations as they rode, keeping their eyes, 

 minds, and hearts open. Youth and health are never 

 at a loss for laughter. Young Faldstedt, the athlete of 

 the party, who groomed their horses, acting, as he said, as 

 Master of the Horse, was a playful, impudent, careless, 

 jovial, capital fellow, always keeping their energies up to 

 the mark ; Nasman was graver, as befitted his pastoral 

 character, but always ready with a Swedish proverb, 

 which Sandel, the Pennsylvanian, capped by a world- 

 wide or smart American saying. 1 Linnaeus ruled his 

 little troop well, being by nature superior to the rest 

 of them, who were, however, of a high average. These 

 young, pliant, susceptible natures had their lives 

 coloured by his friendship, and their minds moulded to 

 his by contact with his clear thought and elevated feeling. 

 The air, too, is so fine in these inland parts of Sweden 



1 I have thrown the dry materials of the reports somewhat into 

 narrative, and even ventured to introduce an occasional dialogue, 

 founded always on the substance of the journal, unless it is for the 

 purpose of introducing a Swedish proverb. 



