HAS 
Pelion operas, Hiafe compofed Gentecint, mafies, mo- 
chamber duets, in.the ftyle of Steffani, innu. 
So that i may be fafely pitta that in for 
tility and variety of works, he farpated every compofer 
of the laft century, except Galuppi and Picci ni. 
‘We 
matter, 
ASSEL ra a cae of Sweden, in the province of 
ingland ; 26 miles N.W. of Hudwickf{w 
ELOE, a fmall ifland of Dennark, between 
ae Falfter. N. lat. 54° 44. 
: LASSEL QUIS: T; seal in Bi 
the favourite pupils o 
uifhed by his ai aretigns Of the 
p sen of the ] was 
Sg was the fon of 
a poor curate, who di ° 
dow, on account of mentdl and co 
vbliged to be placed in the hatgieat at Vadftena. Her 
brother, a worthy clergyman the name of Pontin, took 
‘pity upon the phat and sducued him, with his own 
children, at. the fchool of Linkoeping; bnt Haffelquitt 
~vas foon deprived of this benefactor, and the learning he 
— 
eetea at Upfal in 
himfelf, for trifling g the other hand 
made beft ufe of sudvatage he there enjoyed | 
for his own improvement. e foon t turn fi 
Te a and anreel hiltory, and had Pi pep for poetry. | 
not pafs unobferv r unrewarded, 
d his a procured him, in si a royal ftipend 
or a (oholart. In June, 1747, he 
entitled Wires 
publifhed his a 
Plantarum, under the prefidency of Linneu 
pore. fays, «he wrote it well and defended it m saree. 3 
‘This is icy in Amoen. Acad. v. 1. 418, and in feve- 
x, es. It is one of the beft of the Linnzan 
Teaiion an forth the erroneous and often foolifh 
er enicd on w plants had formerly been employed 
medicine, and in pee a truly philofophical one in 
tural is s; The whole i is illuftrated 
in { 
“In one of his botanical ices in 3747s ie fpoke vi 
little or 
of the. countries of whofe natural. hiftory 
‘nal of pai ‘Hath In vain 
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HAS 
esficalaily %, his lungs. All this did but increafe his ar. 
dour n his turn, appre the benefit his confi. 
tion was likely to derive from nge o climate, in a 
laint. With refpeét to all ether impedi- 
ay he declared he would rather walk all the way he 
have his purpofe croffed. ad he rea re, he 
‘would doubtlefs have faid, he was fo enamoured ee 
that he wayie go * barefoot to Paleitine fora touch of her 
nether a’ 
Hafle Jquitt s firft ftep was to folicit affiftance from certain 
funds deftined for the fupport of travellers, but he was unfuc- 
cell ul He obtained indeed fome private ee and 
sees) 
He be 
ame <a that he w 
The de egree of ete of phyfic was af. 
his abfence at Cairo, 
been communicated to the public. 
met Welk the kindeft reception 
ia Swedifh confel, as well 
amous Sherard, = Sea. Be 
ving oe 
den, or to hore it with exotic a 
s, and in 
e 
i a fail for Alexandria, w 
Here the palm-trees, which now 
oo Bec excited him to enquire i 
brated hifto thei im 
bly entertained 
he had alter 
part for Mee- 
in the herbarium of his Presepe tis 
the Arabs, and returned fafe to 
elquit. his preceptor, 
ceretly delig! hans with his eatbutatm, ae t to him ae ient 
difficy weet f the gf oe fam 
the expence, and above all the weak date of his own health, pe 
