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" small, the music'superlatively rustic, and no change in the dances^ 

 " which were constantly either minuets or Polish; but regardless" of 

 " these wants we passed our time very merrily. While we w^ere 

 *' dancing, the old man, who smoaked his pipe with Zoega, whu 

 " was deformed by nature, and emaciated, became a spe£tator of 

 " our amusement, and sometimes, though very rarely, danced a Polish 

 " dance, in which he excelled every one of us young men. He was 

 " extremely delighted whenever he saw us in high glee, nay, if we eveii 

 " became very noisy; had he not always found us so, he would have 

 " manifested his apprehensions lest we should not be sufficiently en- 

 <* tertained. — Those days, those hours shall never be erased from my 

 " memory, and every remembrance of them is grateful to my heart! 



" What made him so excessively kind towards us was, because we 

 " were foreigners, and besides some Russians who did not bestow great 

 " pains upon their studies, we also were those who alone adhered to 

 « him, who alone heard and attended him, and remained at Upsal en- 

 '* tirely on his account. He found that we loved his science, and that 

 " we proved this love by a most zealous application to its different 

 " pursuits. He felt therefore, great pleasure in convincing his own 

 «' countrymen, that his science would be esteemed abroad, even when 

 " it should begin to decline in Sweden. He was also fond of conversa- 

 " tion on all subjefts relative to natural history, for which he had but too 

 " little opportunity at Upsal. That science almost entirely engrossed his 

 "speech, and every thought of his mind; and being the only natu- 

 " ralist then at that university, such a privation must have occasioned to 

 " him a great deal of irksomeness. 



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