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REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES. 
Lapland , was never printed; partly, because he was prevented from pub 
lishing it by other occupations ; partly, because he did not choose to 
publish his juvenile observations after he had gained such universal 
celebrity. His Dalecavlian diary was consulted as a manuscript 
by his pupils, and the botanical remarks were inserted in his own 
works. A particular fruit of this journey was a list of the pasture 
herbs, which was afterwards prepared for the public eye under the title 
of Pan Suecus , and inserted in the second part of the Amcemtates Aca- 
demics. 
Linn,eus, having no prospeft of support at Upsal, remained on 
his return from this journey, at Fahlun, where he established a little col- 
lege under the auspices of Baron Reuterholm. He began to give 
leBures on the art of assaying metals, and upon other branches of mine- 
ralogy. In a town situated in the mountains, like Fahlun , the novelty oi 
those instructions excited interest. Theory came to the assistance of 
the near occasion of praftice and experiment. Li n n & u s, considering 
the smallness of the place, found a sufficient number of pupils, and 
earned applause, money, friends, and pioteclors. 
The most interesting and most important connexion which he formed 
here was with a young lady. It was she who fixed his wavering caicer, 
and became afterwards his consort and companion through life. Lin- 
naeus wrote to Baron Haller the history of this connexion and 
courtship; — and who would net wish to hear it in his own 
« Returned from my journey-,” says he in this letter, « I took up 
« my residence at Fahlun, the capital of Dalecarlia , began to givelec- 
“ tures 
p a. it ; nere redii in pimarwm urbem isms prwinci* Dalecarlia, Fahlunam ; docui 
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