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tllc Jnilii ftipendiutn a1) ordinibiis regni expetiitf 
llle mihi ffartam medici claflis procuravitj 
llle mihi munus quo fungor conciliavitj 
llle mihi tituUim quo diftinguor paravitj 
llle file ad fereniflimos reges introduxit; 
llle riie cufo numifmate pofteritati coramtndavit. 
« llle meas errare loves, ut cernis, et ipfum 
“ Ludere quae vellem calamo permifit agrefti ; 
quare 
“ Cana prius gelido defint ahfinthia ponto, 
“ Quam noftro illiui labatqr peftore vultus. 
At Stockholm he remained three years, following his 
profelhon with much dignity and honour, and ripening 
thofe ftores of knowledge, which had already bloomed 
and fpread their fragrance through the greater part of 
Europe. Oppofition began filenily and gradually to 
withdraw its fangs, and the rays of never-fading fame ' 
to glitter round his name. During this period he appears " 
to have merely written feme treatifes in the Swedilh 
Tranfaftlons and the Amasnitates Academicas, 
On the twentieth of January, 1741, his only fon, 
the younger Linnaeus was born; and about that time, under 
the direfiions of the flates, he was appointed to travel 
into the iflands of Oeland and Gothland, with a view to 
fearch into the various natural prodiidljons applicable to 
the manufa£iures of the kin|;dom. Jn this tour he was 
accompanied by fix of his pupils. The chief objeft of 
Lis journey was to look after an earth fit for the fabri-. 
cation of porcellane ware, and to note fuch plants as 
jnight be u(eful in medicine or any of the domeftic arts. 
