SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS 
O F 
SIR CHARLES L I N N E, 
KNIOPT OF THE POLAR STAR. 
Of this great luminary of natural fcience, 
born to lift up the awful veil of nature, and to give a 
permanently fyftematic arrangement of her materials, 
whatever can now be known has been colleaed with 
much diligence by Dr. Pultney and Or. Stcever : and 
is principally from the.fe and other fourc«t that the 
following (ketch has been derived. 
Charles Von Linne was born on the twenty-fourth 
of May,t 1707, at Roefliult, a fmall village in the 
province of Sntaland in Sweden. The remoteft know- 
ledge we have of his direa anceftry is derived from 
, Benge Ingemarfon, a pcafant in the pariOi of Hwitaryd. 
+ In Mr. Tripp’s tranflition of Stcever’s life, he is faid to 
have been born on the third of May. 
