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fortune which his wife brought him, and the fale of his 
works, together with numerous rich prefents he occafi- 
onally received, Linnc became at laft a very wealthy 
man. His fa'.ary W'as double during the latter part of 
his !if ., by Guftavus the third, w holikewife fettled on his 
family a liberal eftate of landed property. He purchafed 
the villa of Hammcrby, a fmall diftance from Upfal, 
which for the laft fifteen years of hi-, life he made his 
fummer refidence, and where he kept his colleflions of 
natural hiftory. 
The laft public exertion of Linne, was a beautiful 
pration delivered before the univerfity, when he rtfigned 
his office of Reflor. This was in the latter end ot the 
jrear 1772, in the fixty-fith year of his age. 
Difeafe and the imbecilities of age, began now to 
make hafty devaftation on his conftitution. During the 
later years of his life, he was occafionally tormented by 
excruciating fits of the ftone, and nervous head ach ; twice 
he was feized with apploplexy, which rendered him par- 
tially paralytic, and much impaired his memory. At 
laft he became a wretched and melancholy ruin in intel- 
Jedf as well as bodily powers, and on the tenth of January 
J778, in a gentle flumber, this great man funk into the 
grave. 
The death of Linne was regarded in Sw'eden as a 
Rational calamity. The whole univerfity went into 
