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122 TRAVELS
ment 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
publifhed a fyftem of mineralogy, by which he has acquired fome
reputation, though it is faid 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, 4
the author of a treatife intended to explain feveral paflages in the
facred fcriptures by the aid of natural hiftory. He is accounted:
an excellent philologift, as well as a good naturalift: he is pro-
foundly {killed in Hebrew and Arabic: he is an an univerfal
and editor of different voyages and travels. He is
{cholar, 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 fent to one
of his friends to borrow fome books of any fort to amufe him:
his friend, knowing his tafte, fent him a cheft full of voyages and
travels. He is particularly noted for a comprehenfive and tena-
cine 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 haye actually travelled in them. He forms
in
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