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Doc. 77.] 295
SWEDENBORG TO BENZELIUS,
for a hundred years. 2. These have been used with advantage
for making salt, a ton of salt with a cord of wood in twenty
four hours. 3. In prosperous times this quantity has been sold
for four and a half dalers in copper, and has left some profit.
4. Bohuslän and part of Dahl use no other salt. 5. There have
been salt-works in other places, as in Gulwarsberg, Count Asche
berg’s estate, now laid waste by the enemy. 6. Salt-works are
carried on with advantage in Scotland, and that country uses no
other salt; the water there is similar to our water at Ström
stad. 7. There are salt-works at Lüneburg and many other
places in Germany ; the springs of which are weaker than our
sea water. 8. Should there not be a sufficiency of wood, peat
may be used, which will not fail; in Holland and Scotland
salt is boiled with this fuel. 9. Count Oxenstierna said that
he was willing to forfeit all his other merits, if he could have
the satisfaction of providing Sweden with salt in time of war.
I find therefore nothing chimerical in this undertaking, although
it was begun, and is now prosecuted, in a wrong way. If I
were allowed to take it in hand, its advantages would soon
appear. God grant that all other propositions made were of
the same sort, no subject would then suffer any injury by
them ; not even though a few persons should calculate
differently, and I know not whether any will do so.
As the King has already approved of the calculation based
on number eight, you must be so good as not to create any diffi
culties, that may prevent its publication. I have five little
treatises which I desire to lay before my friends: one, whicb
I have finished to -day, is on the round particles, in which
Dr. Robergº will probably be interested, for he is well skilled
in all that concerns these least things, and is delighted
with such subjects. I will send this from Örebro or Starbo,
where I shall go to to-morrow to transact some business con
nected with the Skinskatteberg furnace.
With my best remembrances to sister Anna, I remain,
honoured and dear brother
Your most faithful brother and servant,
EMAN. SWEDBEI.G .
Brunsbo, January 21 , 1718.
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