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The Floral King. 227
possession of a sound mind, and of a free will,
witness the undersigned :—
“JoHAN FLopERus, Upsala, the zoth August, 1776.
“JoHN HAGEMAN,”
(Seal).
“With reservation of surrogate of my dear
mother’s sole, inherited, real estate, I acknowledge
this testament which I declare.
“ Upsala, the 15th October, 1778,
“CARL von Linné.”
In the Autumn of 1758, Linnzeus bought
Hammarby estate, situated in the parish of Danmark,
Vaksala district, province of Upland. Regarding
this purchase he wrote to his intimate friend Abram
Back on the 22nd. December, 1758. ‘‘Now dear
friend, I am ready to be hung, I have always been in
fear of debt, as if it were a batch of serpents, but
now I must dance on chatelet which I had never
thought. This makes me either prematurely grey,
or dishonoured as if it were an ill begotten offspring.
For the sake of my little children, I bought, this
autumn, a small allodial estate near Upsala for
40,000 dal. <A few days ago a whole neighbouring
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