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420 (Doc. 151.
SWEDENBORG’S OFFICIAL LIFE.
costly. These circumstances prevent the Board of Mines
from being able to make the compensation on the desired
basis. Without taking into consideration, that if the Asses
sor’s opinion is, as is the meaning of the words he has used
in the humble memorial addressed to His Royal Majesty,
that by the customary process of smelting less copper is ob
tained, than is indicated by the analysis made on a small scale
in this case the basis of the computation is not quite correct:
for on a large scale there is always more obtained than on
a small scale. Moreover, to make a trial of all kinds of ore,
and to distinguish the ores in agreement therewith would be
too troublesome a matter, and attended with great difficulties.
In consideration of all this, and of more that might be
discussed at length on this matter, the Board of Mines and
the mine -owners of the district resolve, in conclusion, that if
Assessor Swedenborg is confident that he can accomplish what
he has promised, the mine-owners are very willing that the
desired trials should be instituted; and that if it be made
evident that his process is better than that which is usually
followed, and that it is of such a nature that it can be in
troduced into the whole mining district without inconvenience
and great expense, they are quite willing to honour and
recompense the Assessor for his invention, according as it be
found useful; but that they should, amid so many difficulties
and contingencies, and upon the result of a few trials, bind
themselves before-hand to give up every eleventh skeppund,
this both Your Excellency, and the Honourable Royal College,
and also Assessor Swedenborg himself, will find to be a claim of
a nature to which the mine-owners on their part cannot accede.
We remain , with all due respect,
Your Excellency’s and the Honourable Royal College’s
most obedient servants,
AND. SWAB.66 JOHAN HOLENIUS. GERHARDT J. SAM. KÖRSTNER .
JACOB IWARSSON. JOHAN NÄÄSMAN. OLOF Jonsson. PHILIP
TROTZIG . Joh . PLANTIN . E. S. SJÖBERG . WALLENSSON. SAMUEL
KÖRSNER JR. HANS JANSSON. JOHAN CASTOR. IFWAR DANIELSSON.
JOHAN NÄÄSMAN . JANSSON. SIMON FUNK. OLOF PÆRSSON
with several other illegible names.
At the Mine, November 10, 1722.
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