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taken leave of his relations, friends, and coun- 

 try. The Royal Academy of Sciences made 

 him a prefent of a fine Englifh microfcope, a 

 thermometer, a moft exact geometrical fcale, 

 and many other inftruments. Count Piper, Mr. 

 Peter Wargentin, the one prefident, the other 

 fecretary to the Royal Academy, and many of 

 its members, vied with each other in contribut- 

 ing to the equipment of the young botanift. 

 The director of the Swedifh Eaft India company, 

 Clas Grill, generoufly offered him a free pafiage 

 and board, in one of his mips bound for Porto 

 in Portugal : and the Marquis Grimaldi granted 

 him a handfome allowance towards the expences 

 of the Tour to Madrid. Loefling was well made, 

 tall, ftrong, and of a healthy conftitution, un- 

 impaired by debauches and luxury, all which 

 promifed him good fuccefs in his labourious un- 

 dertaking in a foreign climate. The leave he 

 jtook of his tutor at Upfala, was very affecting 

 and moving. The nineteenth of March, 1751, 

 he left for ever his native country, went round 

 the Baltic, paiTed the Sound, crofTed the German 

 ocean, the bay of Bifcay, and at laft arrived 

 May the eighteenth, at Oporto. Some Fuci and 

 marine productions of the Vermes Clafs, amufed. 

 pur natural hiftorian during his paMage ; but the 

 Portugueze Flora was an ample field for his in- 

 quiries. 



