ANECDOTES OF LINN-EUS. iil 



house. Our balls were certainly not very splendid, 

 the company but small, the music superlatively 

 rustic, and no change in the dances, which were 

 constantly either minuets or Polish ; but regardless 

 of these wants, we passed our time very merrily 

 While we were dancing, the old man, who smoked 

 his pipe with Zoega, who was deformed by nature, 

 and emaciated, became a spectator of our amuse- 

 ment, and sometimes, though very rarely, danced a 

 Polish dance, in which he excelled every one of us 

 young men. He was extremely delighted whenever 

 he saw us in high glee, nay, if we even became very 

 noisy ; had he not always found us so, he would 

 have manifested his apprehensions lest we should 

 not be sufficiently entertained. Those days, those 

 hours, shall never be erased from my memory, and 

 every remembrance of them is grateful to my 

 heart ! 



" What made him so excessively kind towards 

 us was, because we were foreigners, and besides 

 some Russians who did not bestow great pains upon 

 their studies, we also were those who alone adhered 

 to him, who alone heard and attended him, and re- 

 mained at Upsal entirely on his account. He found 

 that we loved his science, and that w T e proved this 

 love by a most zealous application to its different 

 pursuits. He felt, therefore, great pleasure in 'con- 

 vincing his own countrymen, that his science would 

 be esteemed abroad, even when it should begin to 

 decline in Sweden. He was also fond of conversa- 

 tion on all subjects relative to natural history, for 



