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DOCUMENT 150.
MEMORIAL RESPECTING MY HUMBLE REMON
STRANCE AND PETITION ADDRESSED TO
HIS ROYAL MAJESTY*
[On reading the letter contained in Document 149, the
College of Mines seems to have instructed Emanuel Swedenborg
to prepare a more definite statement of his proposal, with the
view of communicating it to the mining authorities at Fahlun ;
on which he prepared the following Memorial, which was read
and discussed before the College of Mines on the 11th of
October:]
1. Your Excellency the Count and the Honourable
College of Mines will kindly and graciously order all whom it
may concern to supply everything that is required in order
that the trial may be instituted, including ore, coal, mate
rials for building the furnaces, etc.
2. They will grant me permission to choose the place which
I may consider most favourable for making the trial. Also
that I may employ the ablest smelters and roasters, and may be
allowed to select them myself. Likewise that I may appoint
some adjunct to assist me in superintending the trial, when
it is instituted on both sides.
3. Although there is no reason to apprehend that in these
trials any one will act unfairly, since Your Excellency the
Count, and the Honourable Royal College, will look to this;
still, as the labourers at the works generally desire to cling
to their old practices, and can with difficulty be induced to
* Preserved in the College of Mines among the Bref och Suppliquer,
for 1722, p. 168.
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