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means to reside a few years in Holland., for the purpose of acquiring 

 still greater perfeftion in medicine, natural history and botany, by his 

 intercourse with the most celebrated scientific Batavians, especially 

 with BoERHAAVE, widi whom he has already carried on a learned cor- 

 respondence. 



LiNN^us also came to Holland to get published, in a manner ad- 

 vantageous to himself, the works which he wrote in Szveden, especially 

 three tables in large folio, finished with the most surprising diligence and 

 ability. On one of those tables he represented all kinds of flowers 

 and plants which can be thought of, in a quite new but very plain 

 manner ; the flowers are reduced to classes by means of the two differ- 

 ent sexes, and by the number of the petals or leaves; on the second table 

 he has collefled all the genera of stones in the same manner, and with 

 such excellent order and classification, that he believes to be able 

 to give any person in a few hours a general notion both of bo- 

 tany and mineralogy. He farther intends to publish a work, which 

 he calls Flora Lapponica, and in which he describes and gives plates 

 of all the unknown plants and flowers which he discovered on his tour 

 through Lapland ; also another produQion to which he gives the tide of 

 Oeconomia Lapponica, and in which he takes notice, in a masterly and 

 regular style, of all he has seen in his extremely difficult, and in some 

 instances dangerous peregrination, with regard to ceconomy and 

 natural history, the dresses, dwellings, rearing of cattle, manners, 

 occupation, diligence and charafter of the Laplanders. 



Whatever this great man thinks and writes is systematical, and he can- 

 not rest till he has brought science, or those defefts which he pur- 

 poses to mend, to that order which is alone congenial to her. It may 



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