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Sal VI us paid Linn^us for each printed sheet of his original works 

 only the small sum of one ducat. But if it be considered, that on ac- 

 count of the small population in that vast kingdom, no great number 

 of individuals are scientific readers, our surprise at so scanty a sum paid 

 for such original works^ as those of Li n n u s, will certainly abat^. The 

 foreign booksellers chiefly found his works the most profitable and 

 most advantageous ; and some of them still reap benefits from him, even 

 after his death. Had Lin n /eu s, as an author, received those sums which 

 the publication of his works and their manifold editions yielded to the 

 booksellers of every country, those alone must have made him -worth a 

 capital sum. 



That rural amenity which always possessed the greatest charms in the 

 eyes of the eminent men of all nations, and which may be looked upon 

 as the just reward of merit in the decline of life — the possession of a 

 villa — was also one of the first wishes of him who occupied himself 

 solely with nature. Soon did his prosperous and flourishing circum- 

 stances gratify him with the accomplishment of this wish ; he purchased 

 the villa of Hammarby, at the distance of one league from Upsal. Du- 

 ring the fifteen last years of his life he mostly chose it for his summer 

 residence. There he kept, comparatively speaking, a little university. 

 His pupils followed him thither, and those who were foreigners used to 

 rent lodgings in the villages of Honby and Edeby, which were both con- 

 tiguous to his villa. In 1769 he had a little edifice erefted at the 

 distance of a quarter of a league from his rural abode, upon an emi- 

 nence, which commanded the prospeft of that whole distrift. In this 

 place he kept his colleftion of natural history, upon the contents of 



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