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more encouraging to his wifhes, it has been 
faid, he was difpofed to have taken up his 
refidence. He had been fame time in HoU 
land, under the patronage, and in the houfe, 
of Mr. Clifford. He had taken his de- 
gree of dodlor in phyfic. He had gained 
the efteem of Boerhaave, and from him 
brought letters of recommendation to the 
. literati of England. 
The fame of Sir Hans Sloane and his 
Mufeum, and the efteem in which Lin- 
N^us held the charafter of Dillenius, 
added to the defire of infpeSing the She-- 
rardian Pinaxy were among the moft power- 
ful motives that induced the Swede to vifit 
England, This event took place in the 
fpring of 1736. I am only able to afcer- 
tain the feafon of the year, from being in- 
formed of the pleafure he expreifed, in 
meeting in the fields with thofe produc- 
tions of England, that are not fpontaneoufly 
growing in Sweden, His delight particu- 
larly, in feeing under the hedges the Hya- 
cinth in full flower, can only be conceived 
by thofe who pofTefs fome fhare of that bo- 
tanical ardour which he poffelTed. 
