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Oxford and the nurferies about London. After a paffage 
of eight days from Rotterdam, he arrived at Harwich, 
and proceeded to London. That he might have the 
lefs difficulty in fulfilling the objed of his miffion, Bo- 
erhave had given him a letter of recommendation to Sir 
Hans Sloane. This letter is preferved in the Britiffi 
Mufeum, and in a manly and dignified flyle, congratu- 
lates ihefe two great men upon their meeting together. 
Linnaeus who is the bearer of this letter, is alone 
worthy to fee you, alone worthy to be feen by you, 
He who ffiall fee you both together, ffiall fee two men, 
whofe equal it is probable the world will not now pro- 
duce. Sir Hans, then in the feventy-eighth year of his 
age, and unwilling at that time of life to have his bota- 
nical creed interrupted by innovations fo totally fubver- 
five of the fyftem he had cheriffied, merely gave him 
permission to examine his cabinet and his herbal. At 
Chelfea he vifited the apothecarie’s botanic garden, from 
which Cliffort wilhed him to procure fomeforeign plants. 
Phillip Miller was then curator of the garden, and gave 
the plants he pointed out their old names. The propri- 
ety of thele appellations Linnptus difputed ; and after 
fome ffiort intercourfe, they parted with mutual alTuran- 
ces of regard, entered into a friendly correfpondence with 
each other, and the garden at Chelfea had afterwards the 
honour of being the firll in great Britain that was arrang- 
ed according to the Linnean fyftem. Arriving at Ox- 
ford he found Dillenius in company with William Sher- 
rard. Sherrard was to Pillenius what Cliffort was to 
