father promoted these pursuits, as tend¬ 
ing to keep the boy in health by the 
exercise they induced him to take. He 
considered them too as safe and inno¬ 
cent diversions, which would not inter¬ 
fere with the acquisition of knowledge 
on other subjects more important to 
him in the profession for which he was 
intended. The parents of Linnaeus 
had determined that their son should be 
a clergyman. His father laid the foun¬ 
dation of his education, by instructing 
him in the elements of the Latin 
tongue, geography, &c. He had now 
nearly completed his tenth year, and his 
paternal instructer saw the necessity of 
adopting a more sytematic course of 
study. He resolved, for this purpose, 
to send him to the grammar-school in 
the adjacent town of Wexicoe. 
. “In 1717* Charles parted from his 
parents, and his garden, and all his fa¬ 
vourite haunts in field and wood, 
