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will Artedi had executed before both the friends left 

 Upsala. 



' The landlord, however, having made out a bill to 

 the amount of more than 200 guilders, Linnaeus went 

 to Seba and tried to prevail on him to redeem the 

 MSS. ; but the latter would give only fifty guilders 

 towards the burial of Artedi. Linnaeus then persuaded 

 Clifford to advance the money ' ; and himself afterwards 

 raised the best monument to his friend's memory by 

 finishing and publishing Artedi's work on ichthyology, 

 with a pathetic account of his drowning in a foreign 

 country in the preface. 



Ill-fated youth I on whose unclouded brow 

 Hope faithless gleamed, to lure thee to thy doom ; 

 And made thy various busy race below 

 But a more speedy transit to the tomb 1 



And art thou gone ? Are all thy virtues dead ? 

 Oh, no ! for Heaven's eternal justice reigns I 

 Thy buds of Hope, though plucked, shall never fade; 

 Their fruit shall ripen in celestial plains 1 * 



The death of his bosom-friend was a bitter loss 

 to Linnaeus, who now began to feel the cruelty and 

 silence of exile. 



1 Translated from a poem oil the death of Pehr Artedi. 



