L I N N jE U S 
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that Sweden is the Atlantis of Plato, the Paradise of Adam, and the 
native country of the ancient northern and southern nations, including 
the Greeks and Romans. 
Olaus Rudbeck, the son of the former, born on the 15th of 
March 1660, who had taken his degrees at Utrecht, succeeded his fa- 
ther in his academical funaions. During the first years he made botany 
his chief pursuit. He afterwards applied to philology, in which he 
made great progress, and intended to publish a great philological 
work, intituled Lexicon Harmonicum, when death arrested his career 
on the 23d of March 1740. When he first took Limnaus under his 
proteftion, he had attained his seventieth year. Going out and 
giving leaures became equally difficult for him, and he wished for an 
assistant. In point of botany he could have found none more able than 
Linnjeus. The perusal of his treatise, and a nearer trial of his abili- 
ties, determined Olaus to fix his choice upon him. 
He took LinnjEUS into his house, where he gave leaures for him 
in the botanical garden in the year 1730. It did great honour to a 
young student only twenty-three years of age, to become the re- 
presentative of a venerable academical institutor. He supplied his 
place with every mark of approbation. The vivacity of his instruc- 
tions, the novelty of matter, charmed his audience, and this charge, ad 
interim , became to the young leaurer a fresh incentive to improve- 
ment, and a school of his own cultivation. He stood indebted to the 
venerable old man under whose roof he was placed, for a more exten- 
sive knowledge of ornithology ; he had a colkaion of all the Swedish 
birds, and gave leaures on them. Lin hiatus always continued to 
make 
