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^ obftlnate ; and finally propofes, Whether it 

 might not be owing to the ftrong impreg- 

 nation of the water with argillaceous particles ? 

 Whether or not he afterwards adhered to this 

 opinion, we are uncertain, as it is but juftice 

 to obferve, that he did not republifh this traft 

 h|mfelf, fmce it was placed at the head of the 

 flfrft volume of the Amanitates^ printed at L(?y- 

 den^ as we believe, without his knowledge, by 

 Dr. Veter Camper, In the mean time we may 

 obferve, that howfoever infufficient this hypothejis 

 may be to folve the difficulties that have at- 

 tended the fearch into the remote caufes of this 

 difeafe ; the advocates of the modern theory, re- 

 lating to it, may think the author's fa6ts, of its 

 frequency in low fituacions, confirm and iiluftrate 

 in no fmall degree their own, according to which 

 it is imputed to miafmata arifing from moift and 

 marfhy ground. 



In this year Linn^^us alfo publiffied the firfl: 

 (ketch of his Syftema Natur^^ in a very com- 

 pendious way, and in the form of tables only, 

 in twelve pages in folio. By this it appears, 

 that he had at a very early period of his life (cer- 

 tainly before he was 24 years old) laid the bafis 

 of that great ftrudure which he afterwards raifed, 

 not only to the increafe of his own fame, but to 

 that of natural fcience. 



In r736, Linn^us came into England^ and vi- 

 fited Dr. Dillenius, the late learned profefibr at 

 Oxford^ whom he juftly confidered as one of the 

 firft botanifts in Europe, He mentions with par- 

 ticular refpeft the civilities he received from him, 



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