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No traveller could have accomplished the proposed end of his travels 
more perfe&ly and more auspiciously than LinNjeus. His peregri- 
nation now promised to yield the richest fruits. He had augmented 
his knowledge and experience in the most extraordinary manner, 
established extensive connexions, which promised in course of time 
to afford him great satisfaftion and advantage, and collefted a vast 
quantity of natural treasures, the produce of all quarters of the globe. 
Exclusive of the knowledge of his late father, how many new eluci- 
dations and enlargements in natural history could not be expedited from 
a man who was so enthusiastically fond of his study, and so zealously 
striving for celebrity as Linn*us at the present period ! He was occu- 
pied with the execution of many useful plans and labours. He had 
projefted fresh treatises upon the plants of the palm and lily kind, 
finished a work upon the sucking-animals, and intended to publish new 
editions of his father’s System of Nature, besides his Materia 
Medica, the Philosophia Botanica, the Genera Plantarum 
and the Flora Suecica. The moment was just come for him to 
open his career with splendor, but the hand of fate suddenly arrested 
his progress. 
In the month of August he made a journey to Stockholm. He there 
had the misfortune to be taken ill of a bilious fever. This distemper 
abated in a short time so much, that he found himself able to return to 
Upsal. But as his recovery had not been quite con plete, he had a relapse. 
Soon after his illness seemed to diminish, but owing to his impatient and 
inalterable love of nature, it gained a third time upon him, because he 
viewed too early, and too long, his natural collections, which were kept 
in a damp and cold apartment. The fever renewed its attacks with in- 
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