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Doc. 198.) 555
A PROSPECTUS.
carried, he gave to each man engaged in the work a small
remuneration; and they raised a loud huzza when the first
galley shot down into the waters of the Iddefjord. “ You see
now," said the king, “that it goes; and now the other craft
must come also.” And so they did. The Danes tried again
and again to destroy the little fleet of boats ; but each time
they were beaten back. This unusual occurrence took place
as early as July 1, 1718,* and it was an important preparation
for the siege of Fredericksten.
DOCUMENT 198.
PROSPECTUS OF A LARGE METALLURGICAL
WORK, TO BE ISSUED IN THE YEAR 1722.4
Towards the end of next year, 1723, a work will be pub
lished under this title: On the genuine treatment of metals
(De Genuina Metallorum Tractatione), by Emanuel Sweden
borg, an Assessor in the College of Mines ; if any one, there
fore, is willing to prepay a certain amount for the work, he
* The learned author of the “ Berättelser," eto. is evidently at fault here
in fixing the date of this occurence; for in our Document 80, which is dated
“The end of June, 1718," Swedenborg does not mention his having been at
Strömstad at all, while in our Document 81, which is dated “Wenersborg,
September 14, 1718," he says : “ Your welcome letter reached me in Ström
stad ; it had come after me to Wenersborg and Strömstad, and therefore
I could not answer it sooner . I have been twice at Strömstad, and I shall
have probably to go there soon again.” From which it would appear,
1. That the work which Swedenborg executed in the neighbourhood of
Strömstad was done between the end of June and September 14, 1718; and
2. That it could not have been finished long before the date of our Document
81 ; that therefore it must have been finished between the middle and the
end of August, 1718, and not on July 1, as is stated by Fryxell.
* This prospectus was printed in 1722 in the Latin language, and the
only copyof it known to exist, is preserved in the Royal Library in Stock
holm, in a bound volume containing some of Swedenborg’s earlier scienti
fic works.
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