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quiries, he collected every plant, dried fpeci- 

 mens, collected feeds, and fent them to Linnaus. 

 For want of another fhip, and not venturing to 



go to Lijbon in a Portugueze Caravela he ftaid 

 at Oporto till the beginning of Auguft, when he 

 took his paffage in a Swedijh fhip. They were 

 becalmed, and therefore fpent eight days on a 

 paffage of a few hours. Here he found a very 

 remarkable difference in the climate, which pro- 

 duced the finefl American plants, as the Agave 

 Americana^ Caclus opuntia, Phoenix daclylifera, and 

 the Dracaena Draco, Mr. Go din, a French aftro- 

 nomer, who had been fifteen years in America, 

 and who was appointed Director of the Academy 

 of Marines at Cadiz, took Loefling in his com- 

 pany, and left Lijbon with him the latter end of 

 September. During the journey, the attention 

 of the young botanift was employed in examin- 

 ing thofe wild growing plants, which in this 

 country were the ornaments of the befl gardens, 

 and required a careful cultivation. He found 

 the NarcifTufes, the Leucoya, Ornithogala, 

 Squills, and Afphodels in full flower : Laven- 

 der, Sage, Rofemary, Fenil, Thyme and 

 Stocchas Arabica, fpread their odoriferous ef- 

 fluvia \ and the groves confuted of Olives, 

 Myrtles, Coluteas, JefTamines, Rofebays, Phyl- 

 lyreas, Maftictrees and Chio Turpentine Trees, 



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