348 CHAPTER 52. 
years, two volumes had been publiflied. 
Tiiefe trafts, by the variety of ufeful and 
entertaining knowledge, with which they 
abound, equally extended and augmented 
the reputation of Linn^us. They con- 
vinced his oppofers, that his knowledge 
was not bounded by mere nomenclature, 
and fyflematic arrangement, as was rcr, 
proachfully objedted. • - 
C 0 N c L u s I O N. 
In England, Dr. Martyn, in his Fir-* 
gil, publiflied in 1740; Di ll en i us, in his 
Hijloria Mufcorum^ 1741 ^ Black- 
stone, in his Specimen Botamcu?n, iy^6f 
had referred to the writings of Linn^us ; 
and occafionally hi-s name had been men- 
tioned in the F hilofophical TranJaSionSy and 
other periodical works : but, as yet, no 
tranflation of any part of his writings, or 
any publication on his plan, had been made 
in this country, until, in 1754, a Swedifi 
pupil of the JJpfal fchool arranged, by the 
generic and trivial names only, all the plants 
of Ray's Synopjis, according to the fyftem 
of his mafter. This little trad: was im- 
mediately 
