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Doc. 5.) 33
ROBSAHM’S MEMOIRS.
doors were directly opposite a green hedge where a beautiful
bird-cage was placed, and as the window in the inner door
was made of looking-glass, the effect was most charming and
surprising to those who opened it with a view of entering
Swedenborg’s other garden, which, according to his statement,
was much more beautiful than his first one. Swedenborg
derived much sport from this arrangement, especially when
inquisitive and curious young ladies came into his garden.
6. Before his house there was an ornamental flower bed,
upon which he expended considerable sums of money ; he had
there even some of those singular Dutch figures of animals, and
other objects shaped out of box-trees ; but this bed he did not
keep up in his later years. The cultivation of the garden,
however, and its produce he left to the gardener.
7. The fire in the stove of his study was never allowed
to go out, from autumn, throughout the whole of winter, until
spring; for as he always needed coffee, and as he made it
himself, without milk or cream, and as he had never any
definite time for sleeping, he always required to have a fire.
8. His sleeping-room was always without fire; and when he
lay down, according to the severity of the winter, he covered
himself either with three or four woollen blankets ; but I
remember one winter, which was so cold that he was obliged
to move his bed into his study.
9. As soon as he awoke, he went into his study,—where
he always found glowing embers - put wood upon the burning
coals, and a few pieces of birch-rind, which for convenience
he used to purchase in bundles, so as to be able to make a
fire speedily ; and then he sat down to write.
10. In his drawing-room there was the marble -table which
he afterwards presented to the Royal College of Mines ; this
room was neat and genteel, but plain.
11. His dress in winter consisted of a fur -coat of rein
deer skin, and in summer of a dressing-gown; both well-worn,
as became a philosopher’s wardrobe. His wearing apparel
was simple, but neat. Still, it happened sometimes, that, when
he prepared to go out, and his people did not call his atten
tion to it, something would be forgotten or neglected in his
dress ; so that, for instance, he would put one buckle of gems
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