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which his friend Ekeberg brought from China in 

 176.3, and which had not been previously seen in 

 Europe. 



In 1758, he purchased for 80,000 dollars (above 

 £2.330 sterling) two estates, situated at the dis- 

 tance of about three miles from Upsal, to which 

 he retired during the vacations, and where he spent 

 the last ten years of his life. On an eminence, 

 near the mansion at Hammarby, he erected a 

 museum, in which he deposited all his collections. 

 It was of an oblong form, and had a magnificent 

 prospect over an extensive plain sprinkled with vil- 

 lages, the city of Upsal and the river Sala appear- 

 ing at a distance, and the lofty mountains of Da- 

 lecarlia lining the horizon. Here he occasionally 

 gave lessons to foreigners, and improved his various 

 works. 



These private instructions seem to have been a 

 source of great emolument to him. They were 

 confined chiefly to strangers, who used to lodge in 

 the neighbouring villages of Honby and Edeby, 

 and to whom he pronounced his lectures, not in 

 the grave and solemn habit of a professor, but as a 

 companion, frequently wearing his dressing-gown 

 and a red fur cap, with a tobacco-pipe in his mouth. 

 Lord Baltimore, governor of Maryland, having gone 

 from Stockholm for the purpose of seeing him, was 

 entertained with a discourse on natural history ; for 

 which he presented him with a splendid gold 

 snuff-box, 100 ducats, and a superb piece of silver 

 plate. 



A pleasing picture of his manners and amusements 

 is given by his pupil Fabricius, although, in one cir- 

 cumstance at least, his example may not be consi- 



