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Leyden^ who, during the last century had been sent to the Eas,t India 

 in the year 1670, and coUefted those plants during his seven years re- 

 sidence in the island of Ceylon. The numbers in this herbal related to 

 the MiLseum Zeylanicmn, which appeared after Herrman n's death in 

 the year 1717. Linn^us published the description of the whole col- 

 lection in 1747? after it had lain in concealment for upwards sevenn 

 years*'. It contained six hundred and sixty plants, which were ar- 

 ranged according to his new system. Including the work of his friend 

 BuRMANN, (Thesaurus Zeylanicus Amstelod, 173.8), and that of Har- 

 TOG the Dutchman, who made a voyage to Ceylon^ at the expence of 

 Doftor Sherard, there is no country nor ifland in Asia whose 

 natural history is better described than this. 



In all Europe., and the world in general, no country was better de- 

 scribed than Sweden — and all this had been done by LiMN.iius. The 

 Swedish government derived the most essential benefits from bis talents.. 

 In the spring of 1746 he made a tour to West Gothland. He travelled 

 more than 300 German leagues, and in the following year published 

 the result of his observations t. In the summer of 1749, he visited 

 Scania or Schonen, the most southern of the Swedish provinces +. This 

 was the sixth and last tour which he made in his own country. 

 Thus LiNN.tus became the father of a beautiful and most accurate 

 natural statistic of his own country. Before he set out on his two last 

 tours, he published a description of tlic Swedish plants^, with an index 



* Flora Zeylanica, sistens plantas Indicas Zeylonrc Tnsnlas, quae olim leftae fuere a Paulo 

 Hermanno Professore Botanico Lcydensi. 747, p. 25+. 



f C. LiNN.5:i Wasigota Resa; as Ricksens befalning forattad. Stockholm^ ^TAl? 



in Sivedifh. 



X LinNjEI Skdnska Resa, forrattad 1749, Stockholm 1751, also in Sived'ish. 



§ Flora Succica, exhib^ns flanias per regnum Suecia: creuentes^ L'fc, Ilohn, 8vo. p. 39:. 



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