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JDf Europe^ And thus it will be feen, that he be- 

 gan fcarcely to feel the difadvantages of his 

 northern fituation. 



We lhall now alfo begin to fee the profefTor 

 in a more elevated rank and fituation in life. 

 His reputation had already procured him ho- 

 nours from almoft all the Royal Societies in Eu- 

 rope, Into the Imperial Academy^ he had been J very 

 early received, and diftinguifhed, according to the 

 cuftom of that inftitution, with a claflic name, 

 having moft aptly been called Dioscorides fecun* 

 dus : and in the year 1753 he received this honour 

 from the Royal Society of London ; and his own 

 fovereign, truly fenfible of his merit, and greatly 

 efteeming his charader and abilities, favoured him 

 with a mark of his diftindlion and regard, by 

 creating him a Knight of the Polar Star. Ic 

 was now no longer Laudatur et alget. His emo- 

 luments kept pace with his fame and honours ; his 

 pradice in his profeflion became lucrative, and 

 we find him foon after pofiTefifed of his country 

 houfe and gardens at Hammarhy^ about five miles 

 from Upfal He had moreover received one of 

 the moft flattering teftimonies of the extent and 

 magnitude of his fame, that perhaps was ever fiiewn 

 to any literary charader, the ftate of the nation 

 which conferred it, with all its circumftances, 

 duly confidered. This was an invitation to Ma- 

 drid^ from the king of Spain^ there to prefide as a 

 naturalift, with the ofi^er of an annual penfion for 

 life of 2000 piftoles, letters of nobility, and the 

 perfedt free exercife of his own religion. An ofi^er 

 l*at readily parallelled in the hiftory of modern 



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