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wirnl and wave, or by the tides. In another place*1 it is mentioned tliat
banks of shells (»musselsteen») of the same sort mav also be found at
Addetorp, in the parish of Tunhem.
But not only the banks of shells, but also20 »other marine animals,
swimming creatures and wonderful insects», even fish[?], which are found
enclosed in the stone, especially [silurian] limestone and slate, and which
are themselves turned into stone, afford proofs of the universal flood, sincc
stone and slate have been nothing else »than mud, sediment, clay and
sand». The présence of sucli organisms is alleged to occur in various
places in. Vestrogothia (Skarcke parish, stora Dahla, and especially in
Billingen), even as many as twelve Swedish miles from the sea. In
another place31 some other localities are also refered to, (Höjentorp,
Öglunda church), and it is added that small mussels are also found
together with the rest. I11 discussing tliese petrifieations Swedenboeg
men-tions that Professor Bromell possesses a large collection of them, which
he (Bromell) intended to describe soond
It is further reported20 that remnants of the wrecks of ships have
been found at some places far inland, and even liere is found the report
of iron rings in the mountains far from the present shores, which would
be useful for fastening vessels. These accounts have as is known survi ved
even to the most recent times, although no investigator has ever been
so fortunate as to himself discover sucli a ring. However, Swedenborg
draws the conclusion from the evidence brought forward »tliat Sweden
mav in former times have been an island or an lltirna Thule. as the
poets say».
What Swedenborg reports21 concerning the remnants of bones of the
wliale, which was subsequently called the Swedenborgian whale, is of
sucli great interest that it may be referred to at somewhat greater lengtli.
Some years before, (see below), in Yånga parish, two Swedish miles from
Skara and twelve miles from the West Coast, there had been »found a
ske-leton consisting of leg bones, vertebrae, etc. Had the skuil been there the
remains might have been taken for those of a Swedish Polyphemus
or Cyclops, who once forged the weapons of Vulcan for our Mars,
or some other one of the Gotliic heroes or warriors». The skeleton
was taken to l psala and there put together, when it was found tliat
it had belouged to a whale, which had gone far inland when the
1 The allusion is tu Bkomkll’s
was publishe«! in 1727.
»Lithographiæ suecanæ specinien secumhum, which
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