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had received the Polish princess with a royal salute when
she passed through Demmin in Pomerania, and that he
and the nobles of the country had accompanied her on
the following day half-a-mile out of town; that a
wonderworking mineral spring had suddenly appeared in
Hors-hausen, about half-a-mile from Aschersleben, the water of
which had already cured thousands, including lame, blind,
and deaf and dumb people.1 Every New Year he sends
a very friendly letter of congratulation. Only seldom a
note of complaint makes itself heard. Once only he
expresses his vexation that so many officers younger than
himself are promoted before him, which he attributes to
the machinations of some ill-meaning persons; but this is
only a passing note, and when in answer to it Oxenstierna
sends him his patent as General (or u Generalmajor ”) his
gratitude finds no words. In 1650 he enters as a
memorandum that he sent home to his estate in
Finland two long guns fixed on pivots, “ so that
they can be turned in any direction,” for the shooting
of wild geese. When, after the war was over, means had
to be taken to reduce the strength of the army, his idea
is to get rid of the married soldiers and the Roman
Catholics first. To his stepson at Strasburg he continues
to send good advice. “ Be diligent in your studies,” he
writes in 1651, for the military career now is counted
nothing. “ I again beg you to work industriously,
especially in the Latin language, in order that you may
soon be able to serve God and your country, for the pen
is now in these times of peace valued more than the gun.”
To this he adds a short time later: “Be saving. My
1 Forbes encloses a medical description of the miraculous spring ; its
efficacy being specially noticeable in “gibbosis, calculosis, paralyticis,
epilepticis, hydropicis, podagricis, et hypochondriacis (!).” Riks-A.
Oxenst. Corresp., 16th July, 1646.
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