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Salvius paid Linnalus for each printed sheet of his original works 
only the small sum of one ducat. But if it be considered, that on ac- 
count of the small population in that vast kingdom, no great number 
of individuals are scientific readers, our surprise at so scanty a sum paid 
for such original works as those of Li n n mu s, will certainly abate. The 
foreign booksellers chiefly found his works the most piofitable and 
jjiost advantageous ; and some of them still reap benefits from him, even 
after his death. Had Lin n *u s, as an author, received those sums which 
the publication of his works and their manifold editions yielded to the 
booksellers of every country, those alone must have made him worth a 
capital sum. 
That rural amenity which always possessed the greatest charms in the 
eyes of the eminent men of all nations, and which may be looked upon 
as the just reward of merit in the decline of life — the possession of a 
villa — was also one of the first wishes of him who occupied himself 
solely with nature. Soon did his prosperous and flourishing circum- 
stances gratify him with the accomplishment of this wish ; he purchased 
the villa of Hammarby , at the distance of one league fiom Upsal. Du- 
ring the fifteen last years of his life he mostly chose it for his summer 
residence. There he kept, comparatively speaking, a little university. 
His pupils followed him thither, and those who were foreigners used to 
rent lodgings in the villages of Honby and Edeby, which were both con- 
tiguous to his villa. In 1769 he had a little edifice erefted at the 
distance of a quarter of a league from his rural abode, upon an emi- 
nence, which commanded the prosped of that whole district. In this 
place he kept his colledion of natural history, upon the contents of 
, which 
