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ought not to lose its chief splendor by his retreat. The King, at the 

 same time made great amends to Linnaeus, by rewarding him, 

 as we have observed, with a double salary, and making him a present of 

 two farms, with liberty to bequeath them to his heirs. 



Two other great rulers of the North emulated the King of Sweden^ 

 by giving proofs of their respefl to the celebrated professor at Upsal. 

 The Empress of Russia, who, as judge of superior merit, became 

 its remuneratrix, almost among every nation in Europe, sent presents to 

 LiNNyEUs. The King of Denmark zealously followed her example. 

 Maria Theresa, Empress of Germany and Queen of Hungary, and 

 the King of Sardinia, complimented the Swedish ambassadors and other 

 grandees who visited their courts, upon possessing a Li n n ;eu s, who was 

 the pride of their country. Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, 

 also spoke in the highest terms of encomium of the prince of botany. 

 Thus the son of a village preacher, whom persons jealous of his fame at 

 Stockholm, — whom a Siegesbeck and others wanted to turn into ridi- 

 cule on account of his reforms, — thus was Linn je us honoured and re- 

 vered by the greatest sovereigns of the age. 



A philosopher, though not the most eminent, yet one of the most 

 extraordinary of this century, J.J. Rousseau, of Gm^r^^r, worshipped 

 Linnaeus as his idol. Having already adduced an instance of his en- 

 thusiasm for our luminary, we will communicate here by way of farther 

 eharafteristic, the conversation which Bjoernsahl had with him at 

 Paris in the year 1770 *. " When I was with Rousseau for the first 

 «» time," writes Bjojernstahl, « he asked me, if I studied botany? 



• See BjOERNSTAHL's Letters, vol. i. , 



" Having 



