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mcnt he has given up his literary labours, and turned his attention 
to another occupation, by which he may perhaps render himfelf 
more ufeful: this is a manufactory for making and printing linen 
cloth. I have noticed above that the mufeum of the academy 
was formerly entrufted to his care, but that he has been fuc- 
ceeded in that office by Dr. Quenzel. 
Mr. Retzius, a profeffor in the univerfity of Lund. He has 
publiffied a fyflem of mineralogy, by which he has acquired fome- 
reputation, though it is Laid to be founded chiefly on compilation. 
In the preface to this book he acknowledges that he is not inti¬ 
mately converfant with the fyftem of Lavoifir. 
Mr. Odman, a clergyman, and profeffor at Upfala, well verfed' 
in geography, and editor of different voyages and travels. He is 
the author of a treatife intended to explain feveral paffages in the 
facred fcriptures by the aid of natural hiffory. He is accounted 
an excellent philologift, as well as a good naturalift: he is pro¬ 
foundly fkilled in Hebrew and Arabic: he is an an univerfal 
fcholar, and his name is famous throughout all Sweden. Being 
oppreffed with melancholy, he never ftirs from his chamber. One 
day, being ftrongly afflicted with this indifpofition, he Lent to one- 
of his friends to borrow fome books of any fort to amufe him : 
his friend, knowing his tafte. Lent him a cheft full of voyages and 
travels. He is particularly noted for a comprehenfive and tena¬ 
cious memory, and by means of this and his great reading, he has 
acquired a more accurate knowledge of many remote parts of the 
globe than thofe who have actually travelled in them. He forms 
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