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the nature and constitution of our own ; as those con- 

 ceive more clearly the situation of countries, districts, 

 and cities, and the manners, rites, and customs of their 

 inhabitants, who have themselves been there,' &c. 



1 Medicinal gardens are cultivated here ' [at Upsala] 

 1 where the plants of various kinds are collected from all 

 parts of the globe, that we may by this means behold, 

 as it were, the great in the little world.' We are all 

 grateful for 'the bounteous gifts of nature, with which 

 we have nothing else to do but to observe and convert 

 them to our own use.' Therefore he counsels we should 

 not neglect the storehouses of knowledge in academies, 

 though our study here should be supplemented by travel. 

 ' If I may be allowed to speak what is really fact, this our 

 university may contend with any foreign one whatever 

 for true and solid learning, in all those parts of learning 

 which have been enumerated ' [taking these things all 

 together to wit, library, hospital, anatomy, physic- 

 garden, instruments for experimental philosophy, re- 

 pository of works of art.] 



1 At this time' [1741] 'the hospitals at London, 

 both for number and goodness, excel all others ; at Paris, 

 the chirurgical operations are the finest ; at Leyden, 

 the anatomical preparations ; at Oxford, the botanical 

 collections.' 



' He who goes abroad raw and ignorant seldom 

 returns more learned. Yet, I speak to you, gentlemen, 

 not of the peculiar advantages of universities, or of 

 sojourning at this rather than any foreign one; but 



