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rice, Paris, ijoo.j" This book became the torch which illuminated 

 the path of the youth, and opened new prospers to his eager views ; 

 it was at the same time the source of the purer and greater light which 

 he afterwards himself diffused. He now contemplated Nature, and 

 that part of her creation which he loved so much, in a quite differeni 

 point of view than he had done before! How little could Rothmann 

 imagine that the young pupil then under his auspices, would one day 

 be greater than the greatest botanist of his time — greater than even 

 TouRNEFORT himself! The more Linn^us began diving into the 

 wonders of Nature, the more extensive became his admiration and 

 love of her study. As in his father's house, so he now continued at 

 Wexicoe, to make the colle6ling of flowers, plants, insefts, Sec. the 

 chief aim and result of his rural excursions. By which means he 

 soon gained a considerable pi-e-eminence in botany over his fellow- 

 students. 



After having frequented college three years, and completed the 

 twentieth year of his age, he prepared himself to go to the university; to 

 that career which became so rough and thorny in the beginning, but so 

 honourable and grateful at its conclusion. 



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