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Pompeian mirror. A tall clock stands in a corner, and 

 four tables in the windows ; these could be placed in 

 one large row for a banquet, and even extended by the 

 addition of two more tables of the same size in the next 

 room. There is likewise a small red Japanese table 

 with a tray top probably one of the Japanese things 

 Linnaeus brought from Holland as presents to Elizabeth. 

 The room next this was used by Fru von Linne as a 

 bedroom after her widowhood. Here is a tester bed and 

 a railed sofa. There are hooks for lamps in both these 

 ceilings. The bedroom ceiling is papered white. The 

 doors have four oblong panels, arranged differently to 

 ours : two panels stand upright in the centre, the others 

 are laid horizontally top and bottom. The kitchens are 

 suited to a hospitable household. 



Linnaeus in his Lapland diary says, .' Among the 

 Laps the men are employed in the business of 

 cookery, so the master of the house has no occasion 

 to speak a good word to his wife when he wishes to 

 give a hospitable entertainment to his guests.' Smith 

 hints that Linnaeus was by no means sure his wife 

 would welcome his guests hospitably. 



We then went upstairs to the saloon, a cheerful, 

 sunny room, with south-west aspect, hung with por- 

 traits of Dr. Moraeus, looking like the taciturn William 

 Prince of Orange, on one side of the window, and Count 

 Tessin, like a French king, on the other side. It was 

 formerly the habit of portrait-painters to flatter their 

 sitters by making them as like the reigning king or 



