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{s small, the music*"superlatively rustic, and no change in the dances, 
<s which were constantly either minuets or Polish; but regardless of 
« these wants we passed our time very merrily. While we were 
“ dancing, the old man, who smoaked his pipe with Zoeca, who 
« W as deformed by nature, and emaciated, became a speftator of 
<s our amusement, and sometimes, though very rarely, danced a Polish 
« dance, in which he excelled every one of us young men. Pie was 
« extremely delighted whenever he saw us in high glee, nay, if we even 
a became very noisy; had he not always found us so, he would have 
“manifested his apprehensions lest we should not be suffi iently en- 
« tertained. — Those days, those hours shall never be erased from my 
« memory, and every remembrance of them is grateful to my heart ! 
t‘ What made him so excessively kind towar us was, because we 
« were foreigners, and besides some Russians w old not bestow great 
(( pains upon their studies, we also were those no alone a^ ! '.ered to 
« w ho alone heard and attended him, and remained at Upsal en- 
tt t i r ely on his account. He found that we loved his science, and that 
tt we proved this love by a most zealous application to its different 
« pursuits. He felt therefore, great pleasure in convincing his own 
u countrymen, that his science would be esteemed abroad, even when 
<c it should begin to decline in Sweden. He was also fond of conversa- 
nt tion on all subjefts relative to natural history, for which he had but too 
“ little opportunity at Upsal. That science almost entirely engrossed his 
« speech, and every thought of his mind ; and being the only natu- 
tc ralist then at that university, such a privation must have occasioned to 
u him a great deal of irksomeness. 
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