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young foreigners were in attendance on 
Linnaeus. His description conveys so 
pleasant an idea of the terms on which 
he lived with his pupils, that 1 cannot 
deny myself the pleasure of giving it 
you, in the words of the writer. 
“For two whole years have I been 
so fortunate as to enjoy his instruction, 
his guidance, and his confidential friend¬ 
ship. Not a day elapsed in which I 
did not see him— in which I did not 
either attend his lecture, or, as it Fre¬ 
quently happened, spend severalliours 
in familiar conversation with him. In 
the summer we followed him into the 
country. We were three, all foreign¬ 
ers. In winter we lived directly facing 
his house ; and he came to us almost 
every day, in his short red dressing- 
gown, with a green fur-cap on his head, 
and a pipe in his hand. He came for 
half an hour ; but stopped a whole one, 
and many times two. His conversa¬ 
tion, on these occasions, was extremely 
