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44 tion in decent company, she consequently was never much fond ol it 
44 herself. 
44 Under those disadvantages, the education of the children of Lix- 
« NvEus could not but be of an inferior description. The young ladies, 
44 his daughters, are all good-tempered, but rough children of nature, 
« and deprived of those external accomplishments which they might 
« have derived from a better education. The younger Linnaeus, who 
u succeeded his father in his professorship at Upsal, is certainly not en- 
dowed with the same vivacity; but the great knowledge which he 
« acquired by a constant pra&ice of botany, and by the many and ex- 
« cellent observations of his parent which he found in his manuscripts, 
c; must have rendered him a very useful man there. The eldest daugh- 
u ter, who married Captain Von Bergen cran z, returned afterwards 
« to her parents, and lived constantly in thei ise. 
« The merits of Linnaus in the sciences are uncommon* great. 
44 He not only enriched them considerably himself, but formed also a 
44 great number of pupils of the greatest scientific eminence. He 
44 found means, partly by the charming method of delivering his leHures. 
44 partly by his excursions and friendly demeanour, to inspire them 
44 with a love of natural history, which they always preserved after- 
44 wards, and which induced them to undertake long and important tra- 
44 vels and voyages, and to, enrich their science at home by valuable 
44 trafits and observations. But few were those teachers, who had 
44 the good fortune to form so great a number of disciples, who all con- 
44 tributed in some measure, to extend the limits of their science ; and 
44 there is no country but Sweden, which ever sent out so many travellers 
i< to. make disco , cries in natural history. — L in Naurs was also my 
44 teacher, 
