ANECDOTES OP L1NNALCS. 
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house. Our balls were certainly not very splendid, 
the company but small, the music superlatively 
rustic, and no change in the dances, 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 smoked 
his pipe with Zoega, who was deformed by nature, 
and emaciated, became a spectator of our amuse- 
ment, and sometimes, though very rarely, danced a 
Polish dance, in which he excelled every one of us 
young men. He was extremely delighted whenever 
he saw us in high glee, nay, if we even became very 
noisy ; had he not always found us so, he would 
have manifested his apprehensions lest we should 
not be sufficiently entertained. Those days, those 
hours, shall never he erased from my memory, and 
every remembrance of them is grateful to my 
heart ! 
“ What made him so excessively kind towards 
us was, because we were foreigners, and besides 
some Russians who did not bestow great pains upon 
their studies, we also were those who alone adhered 
to him, who alone heard and attended him, and re- 
mained at Upsal entirely on his account. He found 
that we loved his science, and that we proved this 
love by a most zealous application to its different 
pursuits. He felt, therefore, great pleasure in con- 
vincing his own countrymen, that his science would 
be esteemed abroad, even when it should begin to 
decline in Sweden. He was also fond of conversa- 
tion on all subjects relative to natural history, for 
