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lost upon them ; a public subscription toeing again set on foot for tile purpose of defraying his expenses , and a sum little £ hort of two hundred pounds , being , within a few months , remitted for his use . Departing from Cairo , in March , 1751 , he travelled to Damiefta , Jaffa , and Jerusalem , and afterwards to Jericho , the Jordan , Bethlehem , Acra , Nazareth , Tiberias , Cana , Tyre , Sidon ; whence he sailed over to Cyprus , Rhodes , and Chios , and arrived safely at Smyrna , with a rich treasure of curiosities .
While he was waiting for a fit conveyance to his native land , he experienced the unhappy influences of the climate , and of ' his recent fatigues , oa a frame of body always delicate . The worst symptoms of pulmonary consumption were quickly visible . No remedies availed . The insidious complaint made daily advances ; and Hasselquist expired , February 9 , 1752 , not long after he had completed his thirtieth year .
It aggravated the sorrow of his countrymen for their loss of him , that he had contracted a debt of three hundred and fifty pounds during his residence abroad , and that his creditors , upon his death , had taken possession of his collections and manuscripts as a security . These , nevertheless , were promptly redeemed by the munificence of Louisa Ulrica , Queen of Sweden , in whose palaoe they were subsequently deposited , and at whose command Linnaeus arranged the collections and edited the manuscripts .
The volume entitled " Voyages and Travels in the Levant , in the Years 1749 , 50 , 51 , 52 , by the late Frederick Hasselquist , * M . IX , " consists of a narrative ( which sometimes takes the form of a journal ) and of fourteen letters , written by him to Linnaeus , from Smyrna , Alexandria , Cairo , and Cyprus . It presents its readers , further , with scientific and classed catalogues of various productions of nature , in the regions visited by Hasselquist . Something , too , is added concerning the state of medicine and of commerce in those countries ; so that the intelligence which this posthumous work supplies is exceedingly various , notel , gratifying , * and valuable .
Hasselqujst ' s voyage from Sweden to Smyrna was extremely tedious . Still it afforded him numerous opportunities of shewing himself a most diligent observer of nature . Nothing escaped his notice . What he records of his interview with Feyssonnel , f and of the distinct light cast by that learned foreigner oti the subject of corals , will be found particularly attractive . Scarcely less so is Hasselquist ' s account of the state of medical practice at Smyrna ; together with his view of the professional character of the physicians of that city .
In relating his expedition to Magnesia , he places before us some memorable facts concerning the natural history of the country , and the modes of travelling in the East . On his return to Smyrna , he witnessed , and has well described , the ceremonies of the Greek Church , during the festival of Easter ; nor has he overlooked the circumstance that Sherard , J our great English botanist , was once resident at Sedekio . § There wa * much in Egypt to take Hasselquist ' s curiosity and admiration . He represents , minutely , but with considerable effect , the manner in which
* ic Some account of Dr . Hasselquist / ' dk-aWn up by Linnaeus , is prefixed to this volume . t He died in 1757 . I A distinguished patron , as well as cultivator of the science . See Pulteney ' s Sketches of Botany , Vol . II . pp . 140 , &c . § In the neighbourhood of Smyrna .
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Memoirs of the Life and Writing * of Frederick Hasselquist . 219
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1830, page 219, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2583/page/3/
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