LETTER III. 
My dear Boy, 
If the difficulties with which 
Linnaeus had to struggle, serve to ex¬ 
cite an additional feeling of interest to¬ 
wards him, I need not fear that this 
feeling will decline at present. We left 
him peaceably pursuing his studies at 
Lund, under the favourable auspices of 
professor Stobbaeus. But Linnaeus was 
not one who would rest contented in 
the lap of luxury, when the hope of in¬ 
creasing his knowledge called him to 
other scenes. The university of Upsal 
furnished him with such an inducement 
toquit Lund and his kind protector there. 
He was well aware that in going thith- 
