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Doc. 148.] SWEDENBORG TO THE COLLEGE OF MINES. 407
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command of His late Majesty, Charles XII. For four years
I had the honour of being a humble servant in the Royal
College, and whatever I could spare besides, I expended in
seeing through the press at great cost several printed works
and some other things, by which, as by every thing else
I have done, I wished to express my great desire to have
the means and the opportunity of giving you satisfaction and
being of service to you ; a desire in which I shall ever continue.
I remain Your Excellency’s and the Honourable Royal College’s
Most humble servant,
EMAN. SWEDENBORG .
Skinskatteberg,* June 19, 1720.
DOCUMENT 148.
SWEDENBORG TO THE COLLEGE OF MINES.+
To His Excellency the President, and to the Honourable
Councillors and Assessors of Mines.
As I am about to undertake a new journey
abroad, it is my duty to make it known to Your Excellency,
and to the Honourable Royal College in writing; especially as
my only object is, to collect more minute information respecting
the condition of the mines abroad and the processes which are
followed there, and also to make inquiries respecting commerce,
so far as it relates to metals. For this purpose I intend
to visit the places where there are mines, and also those
where there is a trade in metals. For the accomplishment
of my design I consider it most useful first to travel to
Holland, thence to England, afterwards to France and Italy,
by way of Venice and Vienna to the Hungarian works, and
lastly to the German. If Your Excellency and the Honourable
Royal College approve of this well-meant purpose, and if you
would communicate to me instructions and directions, telling
me with what I should make myself particularly acquainted
in the various places, I would not only feel it a duty to place
* See Document 130.
+ Preserved in the College of Mines among the Letters and Suppli
cations ( Bref och Suppliquer ), for 1721, p. 157.
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