him describe the plants with peculiar 
accuracy and intelligence, entered into 
conversation with him, and quickly dis¬ 
covered that the young stranger had 
examined the subject with no common 
degree of care and attention. Pleased 
with what he had seen and heard, he 
made further enquiries about him ; and 
soon became acquainted with his merits, 
and with his distresses also. And now 
another kindly heart was warmed in 
his favour; and Celsius, as Rothman 
and Stobbasus had done before, offered 
him an asylum in his house, where he 
might pursue his studies free of ex¬ 
pense. Here, as in the former instan¬ 
ces, he found a well-stored library, and 
a kind and intelligent host, willing and 
able to assist him in all his researches* 
He had at the same time, the gratifica¬ 
tion of making himself useful to his pa¬ 
tron by the help he gave him in prepar¬ 
ing for the press a work on the trees i 
