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Probably we have reafon to regret this circnm- 

 fbance for otherwife Linn^^ius might have obtained 

 an eftablifhment in England^ 'as it has been thought 

 he wifhed to have done ; and doubtlels his op- 

 portunities in this kingdom would have been much 

 nifjre favourable to his defigns, than in thofe arcfbic 

 regions where he fpent the remainder of his days. 

 In the mean time, we may juftly infer the exalted 

 idea i\i2ii Linnaeus had of England^ as a land eminently 

 favourable to the improvement of fcience, from that 

 compliment which, in a letter to a friend, he after- 

 wards paid to London^ when, fpeaking of that 

 city, he called it " Pun5lum /aliens in vitello orbis.^* 

 However, the Englijh naturalifts may now con- 

 gratulate themfelves on having adopted a molt 

 excellent difciple of the Linn^an fchool ; who, 

 with an illuflrious aflbciate, fliared the perils of 

 a navigation round this globe, incited by thidt of 

 knowledge alone \ and who now enjoys that general 

 eftcem among us which is due to his extenlive 

 fcience, and to his fingular liberality of mind and 

 manners. j 

 One of the mofl agreeable circumftances that 

 happened to Linn^us, during his refidence in 

 Holland^ arofe from the patronage of Mr. Clifford^ 

 in whofe houfe * he lived a confiderable part 

 of his time, being now as it were the child of 

 fortune : — Emvi patrid triginta fex nummis aureis 

 dives'^^VQ his own words. With Mr. Clifford^ 



• The country feat and garden of Mr. Qlifford was at 

 M^irHt^m^f about thre^ roiks from Ha^rtmn 



however, 



