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REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES. 
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44 tares on mineralogy, was universally beloved, and remained there a 
“ whole month. The physician of that distriCl passed for a rich man. 
“ Considering the poverty of the province, he could justly be deemed 
e< opulent. His name was Mou^us, eminent for his learning and skill 
44 among the Swedish physicians (Linnaeus called him afterwards in 
“ one of his dissertations the great physician of the Swedes, magnum 
“ gentis nostee medicum). Physic, especially practical medicine, was the 
“ science which he esteemed and preferred above all others. He grew 
“ fond of me. I visited him frequently, and always met with an amicable 
44 reception. He had two daughters. Sarah Elizabeth, the eldest, 
44 was a beautiful girl. A certain Baron had paid his addresses to her, 
44 though without success. I saw her, was amazed, smitten, and fell 
44 in love. My caresses and representations won her heart. She promised 
44 her consent, and vowed to be mine. But as a poor young man I was 
44 much perplexed to ask her of the father. At last I ventured. Mo- 
44 r.eus consented and refused. He loved me, but not my uncertain 
44 and adverse fate. He finally declared, that his daughter should re- 
44 main unmarried three years longer, and at the expiration of that time 
44 he would give his ultimate decision.” 
Ihus Linn.eus had a bride in the twenty-seventh 'year of his age. 
Little did old Morbus think, how great a man his son-in-law would 
dicere non erubescebat valgus, immo irat inter omnes in ista pauperrimd provincid ditissimus 
nomine Morjeus, vir etiam inter Suecia medicos , do&rinam si spefies, facile primus. Hr is/’e 
nullum vita genus medicine inferiorem (praxin bic spettans) esse, millies pronunciavit ; me 
interim amabat. Adii domum ejus, non semel grains ipsi bospes. Filiam babuit (et aliam relate 
inferiorem J pulcbt am, quam ambiebat Liber Baro quidam frustra ; <vidi, obstupui, prrecordia 
tnttma sen si attonitus nontis intumuisse curis. Amami, ilia tandem mifta blanditiis votis, &c. csY. - 
et me amabat, promisit, dixit fi at. Pat rent adloqui erubesem pauperrimus, dixi tamen 
Voluit et noluit, me amabat pater, non mea fata, dixit : intaaa permanent per tres annos 
dicam turn demum. Letter to Haller, Stockholm, Septembers, 1739, 
once 
