ACCOUNTS RESPECTING LINNALUS. 4°5 
“do well to take a trip to Up sal, on a visit to Linn^us. The 
Count spoke in terms of the greatest veneration of Linn^us, and 
I had in other respefts long ago resolved in my mind to have an 
interview with him. I set out accordingly early in the morning of the 
twenty-fourth of Oaober from Stockholm, and reached Up sal on the 
same evening. I had hardly time to rest myself for a few minutes at 
my lodgings, before the younger Lin status surprised me with a visit, 
and invited me to his father s house the next day . 
Sir Charles received me with that openness, and that pleasing 
affability of temper for which he was so strongly remarkable. Although 
he had then attained the sixty-seventh year of his age, yet he still 
appeared quite brisk and lively ; his stature was short, but his body of 
a strong and robust make. — “ Well!” said he to me in Latin, after 
we had exchanged the usual compliments, “ What new natural curiosity 
“ do you bring me ?”■ — “ Alas !” replied I, “ how difficult, how bor- 
“ dering upon impossibility would it be, to bring any thing new to a 
“ Linnaeus.”— As it happened, I had taken with me, and collected 
some natural curiosities by the way. I showed him therefore among 
others, a small crab, which from the characteristic description in his 
system of nature, appeared to be the Cancer Hirtellus. Lunn/eus re- 
cognized it to be the same, and asked me, if there was none of a larger 
size ; he owned, that having never seen them any larger, he had assigned 
to those little hairy crabs, the Latin diminutive hirtelli. I then showed 
another specimen of the same kind which had not the supposed hair on 
the back of the shell. He was surprised at seeing on the surface of 
the back the natural -figure of an human face. Cautious and provident 
as he was in all his researches, he now began to think that art had lent 
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