OF THE LIFE OF LINNAEUS. 
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Thunberg and Sparrmann ; from Virginia by Gronov ; fiom 
Pensylvania and Canada by Kalm; from Jamaica by Doctor Brown e, 
in whose honour he called a plant Browncca and purchased his whole 
colleftion ; from Mexico byMuTis; from the other parts of South- 
America by Miller ; from St. Eustatius by Dz Geer, for whom 
they had been colleaed by Rolander; and even from the fifth part 
of the world, or the new discovered countries in the South Sea, by 
the celebrated Forsters, who with the immortal Cooke first landed 
in those regions. 
The celebrity of his name was in this respect of the utmost efficacy 
to Linn* us, and frequently caused him the most rapturous joy. Among 
others he received a great quantity of beautiful African seeds, through 
one of^the most singular adventures. Donati, a young Italian na- 
turalist, travelled through Egypt and the Levant, at the expence of 
the King of Sardinia, at Alexandria he got acquainted with a hand- 
some young lady, the daughter of a Frenchman, and fell in love with 
her. The lady’s brother begged to be permitted to travel with him. 
Donati granted his request, that he might obtain the hand of his 
sister. But his intended brother-in-law made him his dupe, robbed 
him of all his money and natural curiosities, and fled to France. But 
not finding himself safe enough in that kingdom, on account of the 
vicinity of the Sardinian dominions, he embarked again for Constanti- 
nople. Often had he heard Donati mention the name ol the great 
Swedish naturalist, — he therefore sent Linn*us from Marseilles all 
the collections he had stolen; Donati suffered shipwreck, and died 
July 11, 1763, in the thirty-first year of his age. 
There 
