344 CHAPTER 52. 
LiNN^us, which exhibited an arrange- 
ment fo widely different from the unde- 
fined affemblage of the Hiftory of 'Ja^ 
maica. 
It muft not however be underftood, that 
Sir Hans Sloan e remained infenfible to 
the genius and accomplifhments of Lin- 
Nisus : on the contrary, when he after- 
wards fent him his Flora Lapponica, Sir 
Hans Sloane wrote him a letter, bearing 
date Dec. 20, 1737^ expreflive of the great 
pleafure he received in the perufal of it ; 
exhorting him to elucidate the remaining 
parts of the natural hiftory of his country, 
on the fame plan. 
DiLLENius was highly fenlible of his 
merit, and gave him the moft polite recep- 
tion. But that he who had been fo long 
verfed in the fyftems of Tour ne fort and 
Ray, and after having given improvement 
to the latter, by which he had deferved and 
received the applaufe, not of England alone, 
but of all Europey fhould abandon that fyf-^ 
tern, to embrace the hitherto uncounte- 
Danced novelties of Linn^us^ could not 
reafonably be expeited* 
The 
