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thusiasm his father’s inclination. In remembrance of Linn^us, his 
portrait, after life, and in a Laplander’s dress, is still preserved there. 
From the original, drawn at Clif fort’s, several copies were exe- 
cuted. In these portraits Linn /Eus had the most grotesque appear- 
ance. It represented him with boots of rein-deer-skin, about his body a 
girdle, from which was suspended a Laplander’s drum, a needle to make 
nets, a straw snuff-box, a cartridge-box, and a knife; his neck was 
bare ; his head was covered with a grey round hat ; his hair was of 
a stiff brown colour; over his hands he wore Laplander’s gloves; and 
in his right he held a plant, red from within and white from without*. 
This portrait did not bear the least resemblance to Linnaus in his 
age and maturity of manhood, except the piercing hazel eyes, and the 
wart on his right cheek. 
Bofkhaave had thus far been the author of his good fortune in 
Holland, and resolved farther to become his promoter and benefaaor. 
The charge of a physician in ordinary in the Dutch colony of Surinam, 
in South America, had become vacant. It was only in Boerhaave’s 
power to recommend a successor. He offered this place to Linn.eus, 
who, owing to a desire of propagating and enjoying his celebrity in 
Europe, and deterred by the unpropitious climate of that colony, 
thought proper to wave it. He proposed a friend of his, a German, of 
the name of Bartsch. This was a youth of great parts, and a most 
amiable charafter. Linnaeus had got acquainted with him at Leyden ; 
grew as fond of him as of Artedi, and instructed him farther in bo- 
tany, of which he became a rare and most enthusiastic professor. 
Bartsch gladly accepted the charge, and sailed in the summer of 1737 
* This -was the plant called after his <rwn name, Linn sc a Borealis. 
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