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pe&ations of his country, but he was not to reap the reward of his 
toils. The burning heat of the sandy deserts of Arabia had affe&ed his 
lungs ■, he reached Smyrna in a state of illness, in which he languished 
for some time, and died February 9, 1752, in the 30th year of his 
age. 
The fruits of his travels were, however, preserved through the libe- 
rality of a great princess. He had been obliged to contraft debts. 
The Turks, therefore, seized upon all his collections and threatened to 
expose them to public sale. The Swedish Consul prevented it. He 
sent with the intelligence of the unhappy exit of his countryman, an 
account of the distresses under which he died; — and at the represen- 
tation of Dean B^ck, Queen Louisa Ulrica granted the sum of 
14,000 dollars in copper-specie, to redeem all his collections # . They 
arrived afterwards in good preservation at Stockholm , consisting of a 
great quantity of antiques, Arabian manuscripts, shells, birds, ser- 
pents, inserts, &c. and were kept in the cabinets at Ulrichsdale . and 
Drottningholm. The specimens of the natural curiosities of these mu- 
seums being double or treble in number, Linnaeus obtained some 
of them, and published the voyage of his ill-fated friend t, and 
honoured his memory with a plant which he called from his name 
Hasselquistia. 
The plan which Linnaeus had first projeCled, and which Hassel- 
quisT on account of his illness was not able to execute alone, was 
soon after revived by a German. Professor Mich^lis of Goettingen, 
one of the greatest adepts in the Eastern languages, who from the great 
* See the introduction to the Flora Palaestina, in the Amaenitat. Acad. vol. iv. 
f Fred. Hasselquist Iter Palestinum, Stockholm, 1757, 8vo. 
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