stones, or the stones erected in the public and consecrated ground of the church?

'We travelled towards the coast in company with the owners of the Stora Carlsö (Great Charles Island). Contrary winds prolonged our voyage to these islands. The Carlsöer, Great and Little, lie hardly a quarter mile' [Swedish] 'from each other, and barely half a mile from the land. Both are fairly lofty and they give in the sea something the aspect that Thorsburg and Hoburg have on terra firma. Those two hills, when Gothland was submerged, must have resembled these two islands.

'There are several fishermen's houses on the west side of Stora Carlsö, and some stone houses; and not far from these a runic stone whose eastern side bore a Latin inscription with an enigmatical date. The western side of the stone was inscribed in Swedish verse. A good-sized stone house lay towards the southern extremity of the isle. We unsuccessfully sought a runic stone to tell us something about its former inhabitants. We found many interesting madrepores and corals. We passed the night in a fisherman's hut on this island, for no one else dwells on this or on the lesser Carlsö. Sheep feed on the scanty herbage.'

Linnæus was greatly interested in Stora Carlsö; he often mentions it in his books and lectures. He speaks of the 'stone giants,' or isolated rocks, 20 to 40 feet

1 Lilla Karlsö (Little Charles Island), 244 ft., is the highest hill in this region.

in height, formed by the action of water. He also discovered many new plants, and named them-particularly a kind of saponaria,' which he considers useful in œconomics.

'We returned from Lilla Carlsö to Klintehamn, thence to Sande. At Mesterby Churchyard (a daughter church of Sande) we found two runic stones; we read one, the other was illegible. We passed some very tall fir trees on our way to Roma Kloster.' 2

'We took up our night-quarters again in Wisby, whence we had travelled on June 25. It was now July 17. A sort of marl was pointed out to us by an English seaman, who assured us it was an English species of marl' [ay, more, the fuller's earth itself—the very thing that marked out England as the natural home of the woollen trade-better in England than in all Christendom besides. Old Fuller says it was forbidden by law to be transported from England in the 14th century. Here was a precious discovery indeed!]

'July 19.-Attended Divine service in Wisby. The women keep up their custom of wearing black dresses and mittens to go to the Communion even in the heat of summer.

'While waiting for a vessel to return home by, we looked over the fine library of Bishop George Wallin, pleasantly situated in a garden. garden. A vessel came at

Soapwort.

2 An old Cistercian convent, rebuilt and used as the residence of the governor of the island. One can reach it by rail from Wisby.

length by which we returned to Öland, meeting with a dangerous storm off the Carlsöer. The sailors climbing the masts could see Öland as well as Gothland. We took in a great sail and soon saw Öland. The storm lulled; we anchored near Boda and praised God who had delivered us from the greatest danger. We travelled to Horn, where we stayed the night.

'July 26.—We were on horseback betimes. Leaving Föra Church to the left, we came to Pesnäs, journeying farther to Ormoga by Alböke-the interesting saddleroofed church, which looked doubly ill-kept after the fine condition of the Gothland churches-by Kiopinge and Raplinge, noticing the progress of the vegetation. The fields were ripe to harvest now, all yellow, which were green when we passed before.

'From Odensflisa we went to Isgiärde, staying there the night. Allgudrum's church we wished to see, and still more the castle itself, which is the most famous and largest in the county; but evening and darkness overtaking us made us hasten our journey to where we first came on June 1. We stayed the night here, and on the morrow (July 27) had a calm and favourable passage to Kalmar. Öland faded out of our sight; but its green fields, its shadowy forests, and matchless Tempe vales will remain ever present in my memory.

'July 28.-In Kråkenäs, near Wexio, I rested for two days from the daily work I had already performed for two months.' Linnæus went on from Wexio to Stenbrohult, where he admires the tall alder trees

round the bight of the Lake Möckeln by Stenbrohult, and talks affectionately of the garden of his childhood that his father had made. On August 10 he describes the Kirmesse ceremonies in Småland, Skåne, and Blekinge, which, he says, appear to have been handed down from the old Goths.

'August 11.-Some of our company-Messrs. Moræus, Gahn, and Dubois-who left us at Kalmar to travel through Skåne and Blekinge, rejoined us here. They all returned to Wexio, where they made a week's stay, visiting Kronoberg Castle ruins in the Helgasjö Lake; travelling towards Stockholm by way of the ironmountain of Taberg and Jönkoping, inspecting the school at Wisingsö; passing Omberg (in East Gothland), Wadstena, Motala, Medewi, Askersund, Skyllberga, and Örebro, where they took leave of Moraus and Gahn, who went home to the New Kopparberget, near Falun. Then Linnæus travelled swiftly by night and day, passing through Arboga in the night of August 25, Enkoping 27th, Upsala 28th.

Early in the morning he left Upsala, and came towards evening to Stockholm, whence he had set out on his journey. Though unsuccessful in its principal object—the finding of a porcelain clay-the result of the Öland and Gothland tour proved quite satisfactory to the States..

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CHAPTER XVII.

THE DREAM FULFILLED.

'The new professor rose from his place, amidst the highest university authorities in their official seats; and in that clear manly voice, which so long retained its hold on the memory of those who heard it, began, amidst deep silence, the opening words of his inaugural lecture. Even to an indifferent spectator it must have been striking, amidst the general decay of the professorial system in Oxford, and at the time when the number of hearers rarely exceeded thirty or forty students, to see a chair, in itself the most important in the place-but which, from the infirmities of the late professor, had been practically vacant for nearly twenty yearsfilled at last by a man whose very look and manner bespoke a genius and energy capable of discharging its duties, as they had never been discharged before, and at that moment commanding an audience unprecedented in the range of academical memory. . . The whole place seemed to have received an element of freshness and vigour. . . . But to many of his audience there was the yet deeper interest of again listening to that well-known voice and gazing on that well-known face, in the relation of pupils to their teacher.'-STANLEY, Life of Arnold.

...

ON Linnæus's return from this tour the professorship of Physics and Anatomy at Upsala became vacant by the resignation of Dr. Roberg, who had held it over thirty years. Roberg requested his dismissal, which was granted, with the appendage of his whole salary, as he had exercised his functions over thirty years.'

1 Pulteney.