Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - Sidor ...
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
278 [Doc. 69.
SWEDENBORG’S CORRESPONDENCE.
therefore, that this might correspond in the same way on the
pages. With regard to the engravings for the tap, I do
not know how to provide them , as I am so far away, and
have not permission to come over. Could Dr. Robergto be,
in any agreeable and engaging manner, induced to undertake
it, it would be the best way of arranging it, as there are several
particulars connected with it, which Mons. Aveln could not so
easily accomplish. Further, should the tap itself require
to be inspected, it lies in a box in the room in which I was,
in one of the drawers on the top, and might be left with
Dr. Roberg, º should he undertake the task. I also hope that
70
the Doctor will favour us with his thoughts on snow and
freezing, as he promised.
With regard to his project for manufacturing salt, His
Majesty discussed it, and took the opposite side ; proving his case
by Hungarian wine, which may be entirely frozen, and stating
that when he was in Poland a cask of Hungarian wine was
so completely frozen, that he dealt it out in pieces with his sword
to the men, although there remained a kernel in it, of the
very essence of the wine, as large as a musket-ball. As His
Majesty seemed to be interested in the manufacture of salt in
Sweden, we gathered minute information about it in Udde
valla ; and we found that in Sweden there are the best oppor
tunities for its manufacture, as there is abundance of forest
and water for promoting the work; and we might venture
to promise to produce almost as much as is required at eight
or ten dalers in copper per ton ; this will be demonstrated in its
proper place. I will confer with Dr. Roberg about some
thing on this subject which must be sent to the King; viz. the
drawing of some new salt-pans, by which wood is economized,
and the operation considerably accelerated ; and also the
drawing of the pumps and graduating pipes, which are likewise
new ; although even there, as in other places, the brine may
be concentrated by the drying process, by being exposed to the
air in summer, and by being frozen in winter, so that it may
be worked and boiled down with the least amount of trouble.
At Strömstad there is a salt boilery, but it is constructed
with the greatest want of judgment, and without any other gradu
ation than from the water being pumped up from the deep ; it has
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
