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The Floral King. 99
Boerhaave, Clifford and others tried every means
to persuade Linnzus to remain in the service of
their country. Professorial Chairs at Utrecht
and Leyden were offered him, and proposals for
him to undertake, at the expense of the State,
scientific journeys to the Cape of Good Hope and
the American Colonies. It is even related that the
venerable old’ Boerhaave proposed his only living
daughter, Johanna Maria, five years younger than
Linnezus, as his bride, with the tempting dowry
of a million gulden. But Linnzus waived every-
thing; he longed to see his drooping Linnea in
Fahlun, and he wrote in his diary, ‘“ Everything
must yield to Love.”
He said that the moist climate of Holland did
not agree with him, and that the Tropics, to which
he had been offered to go, still less would do so,
he being a son of the cold North, where the air
generally is dry and crisp. But he had secret
reasons of his own, for he was engaged in his own
land to his ‘‘ Sara Lisa Morza.”
Still, Linnzus could not immediately return
home. Gronovius still desired his assistance for
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