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Doc. 204.] SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS, 1710-1734.
From Holland I travelled to Aix-la-Chapelle, Liège, Cologne
and other adjacent places, examining the mines there.
Thence I went to Leipzig, where I published my Miscellanea
observata.* Leaving that town I visited all the mines in Saxony,
and then returned to Hamburg.
From Hamburg I returned to Brunswick and Goslar, and
visited all the mines in the Hartz mountains, belonging to the
houses of Hanover and Lüneburg. The father-in-law of a son of
the Emperor [of Germany] and of a son of the Czar, Duke Louis
Rudolph,¹5 who resided at Blankenburg, graciously defrayed
all my expenses, and on taking leave of him, he presented me
with a gold medal and a large silver coffee-pot, besides bestow
ing upon me many other marks of his favour. I then returned
to Hamburg, and thence by way of Stralsund and Ystad to
Stockholm, having been absent one year and three months.
1733. In the month of May I again by royal permission
travelled by Ystad to Stralsund, and through Anclam and
Berlin to Dresden; and thence to Prague and Carlsbad in
Bohemia, where I visited the mines. Afterwards I went back
to Prague, and thence by Eule to Dresden, and from Dresden
to Leipzig.
In Leipzig I saw through the press my Principia rerum
naturalium and my Regnum subterraneum de ferro et cupro,†
*Miscellanea Observata circa Res Naturales et præsertim circa Mine
ralia, Ignem, et Montium strata. Parts I to III of this little work were
published at Leipzig, and Part IV at Schiffbeck, near Hamburg. An
English translation, prepared by Mr. Strutt, was published in London in
1847 under the following title: "Miscellaneous Observations connected with
the Physical Sciences."
+ Principia Rerum Naturalium sive Novorum Tentaminum Phænomena
Mundi Elementaris philosophice explicandi (The first Principles of Natural
Things, being New Attempts towards a philosophical explanation of the
Elementary World), being Volume I of Emanuelis Swedenborgii Opera
Philosophica et Mineralia. · Volumes II and III of these Opera, &c., bear
the titles respectively of Regnum Subterraneum sive Minerale de Ferro
(The subterraneous or mineral kingdom of Iron), and Regnum Subterraneum
sive Minerale de Cupro et Orichalco (The subterraneous or mineral king
dom of Copper and Brass). Volume I of this series was translated into
English by the Rev. Augustus Clissold, and published in two volumes in
1845 under the title of Swedenborg’s "Principia."
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