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" tion in decent company, she consequently was never much fond of it 

 « herself. 



" Under those disadvantages, the education of the children of Lin- 

 " NjEvs could not but be of an inferior description. The young ladies, 

 " his daughters, are all good-tempered, but rough children of nature, 

 « and deprived of those external accomplishments which they might 

 « have derived from a better education. The younger Li n n ^ u s, who 

 " succeeded his father in his professorship at Upsal, is certainly not en- 

 " dowed with the same vivacity; but the great knowledge which he 

 " acquired by a constant praftice of botany, and by the many and ex- 

 " cellent observations of his parent which he found in his manuscripts, 

 « must have rendered him a very useful man there. The eldest daugh- 

 " ter,who married Captain Von Bergencranz, returned afterwards 

 " to her parents, and lived constantly in their house. 



" The merits of Linnaeus in the sciences are uncommonly great. 

 " He not only enriched them considerably himself, but formed also a 

 " great number of pupils of the greatest scientific eminence. He 



found means, partly by the charming method of delivering his le6tures, 

 « pardy by his excursions and friendly demeanour, to inspire them 

 " with a love of natural history, which they always preserved after- 

 •** wards, and which induced them to undertake long and important tra- 

 " vels and voyages, and to enrich their science at home by valuable 

 " trafts and observations. But few were those teachers, who had 

 " the good fortune to form so great a number of disciples, who all con- 

 " tributed in some measure, to extend the limits of their science ; and 

 " there is no country but which ever sent out so many travellers 



to make discoveries in natural history. — Linn^us was also my 



« teachers 



