LINNAEUS IN FRANCE. 107 
It was to his friendship Linnaeus stood also indebted for an honour 
which was so rare and distinguishing for a young foreigner. He was 
admitted a correspondent member of the French academy of sciences. 
He left with some reluftance a city where he had enjoyed so much plea- 
sure and entertainment. He had promised Baron Haller to visit him 
on his return from thence; but the impatience and constancy of his 
amorous flame recalled him to his country. After one month’s resi- 
dence in the French metropolis he went on board a ^ship at Rouen, in 
which, after a passage of five days, he reached Helsingburg in Scania , 
whence he set out to Stockholm . v 
Never was there a genius of the North who returned from foreign 
countries to his home, loaded with so many encomiums and laurels. 
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