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Doc. 97.] 331
SWEDENBORG TO BENZELIUS.
in making experiments, and testing one thing and another.
With my humble regards to all good friends, I remain forever,
most honoured brother,
Your most obedient servant,
EMAN . SWEDENBORG .
Liege, December 15, 1721.
[P. S.] To -morrow, with God’s will, I shall start for some
of the mining districts of Germany.
DOCUMENT 97.
SWEDENBORG TO BENZELIUS. *
Most honoured and dear brother,
I thank you very much for your agreeable
letter from Upsal, which brother Gustav Benzelstierna65 has
handed to me. I am glad to hear that you are enjoying good
health. I should like very much, if I had the time, to make
a trip to Upsal; but as it is of great importance for me to be
as soon as possible at Starbo, 68 whence I have not received
any news at all, and especially as long as the iron conveyance
from Köping is here, I therefore reserve this honour for
myself until after my return, when I may profit at your house
by any books that I find in the Library.
With respect to what you were kind enough to observe
about my proposition,† I gratefully acknowledge your kind
intention, but first of all I do not proceed in this matter on
such loose principles as Kunckelt; on the contrary I have on
* “ Benzelius’ Collection," Vol. XL, No. 160.
+ This proposition will be found discussed fully in Documents 149 to
152, Section IV. Swedenborg’s object in this proposition was to increase
by ten per cent the yield of copper from the ore ; and to demonstrate the
feasibility of his proposition, he applied to the King for permission to insti
tute a competitive trial at Fahlun.
$ Johan Kunckel, a well-known chemist, born 1630, at Rendsburg in
Holstein . He was inspector of the mines at Annaberg, and chemist to
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