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694 NOTES TO VOLUME I.
NOTE 106.
BARON CASTEN FEIF .
Baron Casten Feif, mentioned in Document 124, was a favourite
of Charles XII. As Councillor of War he was with the King in
Wallachia, and after Charles had made his escape to Stralsund, Feif
soon after joined him there. In the introduction to his Journal for
1736 to 1739, Swedenborg mentions his having returned to Sweden
from Greifswalde, in the spring of 1715, with a Madam Feif, who
was no doubt the wife of Casten Feif. After the death of the King,
Feif was made a baron, and in 1723, became president of the Ad
ministration of Crown-lands (statskontoret). He died in 1739 at the
age of seventy-eight.
NOTE 107.
AXEL CRONSTEDT.
Axel Frederic Cronstedt, son of Lieutenant-General Gabriel Cron
stedt, was born in 1722, studied at Upsal, and it appears from
Document 125, that he returned from his travels about 1740. In
1742, he became auscultant in the College of Mines, where he met
with Assessor Tilas, who subsequently became councillor of Mines,
and took a lively interest in the talented young man. This interest
matured into warm friendship, and these two scientific men exchanged
many letters on subjects connected with mineralogy, chemistry, and
on science in general, all which are carefully preserved in the Bergius
Collection of Letters in the Academy of Sciences in Stockholm (see
Note 46). . Among these letters are two addressed by Baron Tilas
to Cronstedt, in which he communicates to him his experience with
Swedenborg ( see Section X ). In 1746, Cronstedt became notary in
the College of Mines ; and in 1758, master of Mines. From 1746 to
1751, he made a thorough examination of all the mines situated in
the eastern and western “Bergslagen," and communicated the results
to the College of Mines in a most masterly report which secured his
election as member of the Academy of Sciences. In 1756, he published
his text-book of Mineralogy, which was translated into German,
English, and French. He died in 1765.
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