GENERAL VIEW 



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OF THE LATE CELEBRATED 



L I N N ^ U S, &c. 



CHARLES VON LINNE, the fon of a 

 Swedijh divine, was born May 24, 1707^ 

 at Roejhult^ in the province of Smaland^ in Sweden 

 of which place his father had the cure, when this 

 fon was born, but was foon after preferred to the 

 living of Stenbrihult^ in the fame province, where 

 dying in 1748, at the age of 70, he was fucceeded 

 in his cure by another fon. We are told, in the 

 commemoration-fpeech on tliis celebrated man, de- 

 livered in his Swediflj majefty's prefence, before 

 the royal academy of fciences at Stockholm^ that the 

 anceftors of this family took their firnames of 

 LiNNitus, LindeUuSy and 'Tiliander^ from a large 

 lime-tree^ or linden-tree^ yet (landing on the farm 

 where Linnaeus was born ; and that this origin of 

 firnames, taken from natural objeds, is not very 

 uncommon in Sweden. 



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