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with some old Japanese pictures. The usual Swedish 

 telescope bed, ornamented in classical style, like that 

 we call Adam's pattern, still has its fine homespun 

 linen sheets marked in cross stitch < C. L. 16.' The 

 pink-covered chairs are in French classical style. 



The daughters' room comes next, and next to it the 

 son's room, with a green-tiled stove, a chemical baro- 

 meter, and some electrical apparatus hanging on the 

 walls. Here is one of the ordinary Swedish sofa bedsteads 

 with old-fashioned laced sacking, as well as the small 

 green-painted bed the great Linnasus died in. This bed- 

 stead is low, and looks unusually short. Perhaps Lin- 

 ngeus used his son's room in his last illness that he might 

 have the young man's attendance to lift and support him. 

 These rooms are papered, and must have looked highly 

 fashionable in his day, when the house was ' replete with 

 every modern convenience ' : the anteroom by the stair- 

 case is merely whitewashed. The staircase balustrading 

 is of laths cut in a pattern and painted white. There is 

 an upper staircase, in a sort of cupboard, leading to the 

 garrets. The doors are all neatly and elegantly panelled. 

 It is altogether a plain and unpretending country house, 

 of cottage-like exterior. We were taken through a 

 rocky woodland path, up the hilly grounds behind 

 the house, to Linne's reading-room, called by himself 

 1 Museum ' Hammarbyense,' a sort of summerhouse of 

 one room, with oval-topped windows, wooden door of 

 herring-bone pattern, and a pyramidal shingle roof 

 with a ball on the top. From a glade in front of it, 



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