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botanist. We found our way easily back through the 

 wood by the crossed sticks we had laid at the turnings, 

 and enjoyed our return walk in the brisk evening air. 

 We drank again from the pump, when a man and 

 a boy had finished watering their horses. .Again we 

 crossed the FyrisS's tributary, opposite the fine large 

 building of the Agricultural School, and saw the Upsala 

 towers clear cut in silhouette against the western sky. 

 How sweet the lark's evening hymn resounded as he rose 

 out of the grass high above our heads till almost lost 

 to sight ! Back in Upsala by ten o'clock, and still broad 

 daylight; indeed at eleven it was still daylight, or a 

 kind of mixed light clear enough to read by and to 

 enjoy before lighting candles to write out our notes. 



Linnaeus kept at Hammarby a little university. His 

 pupils followed him thither, and foreigners used to rent 

 lodgings in the adjacent villages of Honby and Edeby. 1 

 Young Burmann was the only foreigner who ever lived 

 in his house. ' He was as penetrating as any of the 

 pupils I ever had under me,' is Linnseus's opinion of his 

 old friend's son. Fabricius draws a pleasant picture of 

 his life and surroundings before and during the building 

 of Hammarby. It has its shadows, deep like those of 

 a Rembrandt etching. 



'In winter we' [three foreigners Fabricius, who 



relates, Zoega, and Kuhn] ' lived facing his house ' [at 



Upsala, in the Swartbacksgatan], i and he came to us 



almost every day in his short red robe de chambre, with 



1 Stoever. 



