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obje6l of still greater and brighter hopes to his fellow citizens, though 

 they never came to maturity. 



Attended by a great number of mourners, his corpse was solemnly 

 deposited on the 30th of November 1783, in the cathedral at Upsal^ 

 close to his father's remains. M. Von Schulzenheim honoured his 

 memory by publicly delivering a funeral oration. The male branch of 

 the ennobled family of LinN/Eus having become extinft by this death, 

 his coat of arms, according to the Swedish custom, v. as broke in pieces, 

 and the gardener of the University strewed flowers over a tomb 

 which contains the ashes of a generation, that will remain great and 

 imperishable as long as the earth, and nature and her science shall 

 exist. 



REMARKABLE 



