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ought not to lose its chief splendor by his retreat. The King, at the 
same time made great amends to Linnaeus, by rewarding him, 
as we have observed, with a double salary, and making him a present of 
two farms, with liberty to bequeath them to his heirs. 
Two other great rulers of the North emulated the King of Sweden , 
by giving proofs of their respeft to the celebrated professor at Upsal. 
The Empress of Russia, who, as judge of superior merit, became 
its remuneratrix, almost among every nation in Europe , sent presents to 
Li nn/Eus. The King of Denmark zealously followed her example. 
Maria Theresa, Empress of Germany and Queen of Hungary, and 
the King of Sardinia, complimented the Swedish ambassadors and other 
grandees who visited their courts, upon possessing a Linn m. us, who was 
the pride of their country. Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, 
also spoke in the highest terms of encomium of the prince of botany. 
Thus the son of a village preacher, whom persons jealous of his fame at 
Stockholm , — whom a Siegesbeck and others wanted to turn into ridi- 
cule on account of his reforms, — thus was Linn.eus honoured and re- 
vered by the greatest sovereigns of the age. 
A philosopher, though not the most eminent, yet one of the most 
extraordinary of this century, J. J. Rousseau, of Geneva , worshipped 
Linnaus as his idol. Having already adduced an instance of his en- 
thusiasm for our luminary, we will communicate here by way of farther 
chara&eristic, the conversation which Bjoernsahl had with him at 
Paris in the year 1770 *. “ When I was with Rousseau for the first 
“time,” writes Bjoernstahl, « he asked me, if I studied botany? 
* See Bjoernstahl’s Letters, vol. i. 
“ Having 
