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advanced to show ti »c higher water-level of the ocean in former times
can be referred to the universal tlood.
The iirst chapter (Observata circa montium diversitatem in Sueeia,
ot disquisitio de illorum origine) in Swedenborg’s »Miscellanea observata
circa res naturales» taken as a whole contains08 the same views, as
con-cerns the mountains, (although here the strata of the mountains in
Osti •ogothia and in Gothland are also mentioned), and erratics are referred
to in the treatise On the Height of Water, etc. The position, nature and
characteristics of the mountains are regarded as being results of the
universal flood. The presence of the great erratics, like fragments
of mountains, even in regions where no mountains exist, indeed on
the tops of other mountains, is especially emphasized. That the erratics,
according to Swedexborg’s view, are especially found at places situated
very high above the sea, as in the tract of Örebro, he considers to
depend upon this, that the water there was not so deep and therefore
did not possess the power to move the blocks further. Another chapter
(Observatio circa subsidentiam marium versus Septentrionem) in this
work (Miscellanea Observata) also contains** a summary of what was
advanced concerning the subject in question in the treatise On the Height
of Water. It is here reported that hooks and other objects for fastening
vessels have been found especially in Upland, and it is here further
emphasized that not all the changes in the earth’s erust have been caused
by the universal flood, but that some have been occasioned by this, that
the sea was formerly considerably1 higher than now, and at that time
certain lavers with the petrifications enclosed in them were formed,
while on the other hånd others are derived from the universal flood. It
is also expressiv stated here that the surface of the Baltic is higher
than that of the North Sea, as shown by the faet that the descent of the
streams which flow to the North Sea from the highly situated region at
Örebro is by calculation found to be greater than for those which flow
to the Baltic.2 Therefore the latter’s diminished height as observed in the
1 In reality it should have been said that the shore-lines were formerly several
miles farther inland than now, hecause this is evidently Swedkxbohg’s view. Hesavs:
Non omnes mutationes in terrae erusta a diluvio universali örtum suum duxisse, sed
etiam a mari supra horizontem hodiernum multis parasangis olim exstanti», etc. A
parasang or ancient Persi an mile corresponds to 30 stadia or 4.5 kilometers. Of
course fewEDEMioiu; could not liave meant that the difference in the sea-level s vertical
height was many parasangs.
As a matter of faet actual measurements had not been made, but Swedenborg
says that the descent to the North Sea would be about 70 ells.
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