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16 SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS AND DIARIES. [Doc. 205.
white, very beautiful, and large ; also, ores containing gold ;
native gold, in considerable masses imbedded in quartz ; like
wise silex, polished on the outside, but interiorly variegated
and interspersed with a great number of dense veins of gold ;
pieces of native silver, and splendid specimens of the ores of
other metals. There are also articles most skilfully and ela
borately wrought of silver, as vases, caskets, and fancy-boxes, &c.
Porcelain and wares from China are likewise exhibited ; be
sides animals of various kinds, as crocodiles, walruses, boars
of extraordinary size, rhinoceroses, elephants’ tusks of different
kinds. A knife is also shown which a man had swallowed and
which was found, when removed by an operation, to be half con
sumed, the man living afterwards for twenty years ; likewise a die
which broke in two while being used to decide the fate of some
innocent person. A life-like wax figure of King Frederic William
is exhibited, as well as figures of some of his sons and
daughters ; besides many other objects which I have no time
to enumerate.
I visited also the laboratory of Dr. Neumann, which is
furnished with several small fire-places and furnaces for chemi
cal purposes, especially for distillations in the water and sand
baths, and likewise with digesters ; the water flows in from
above, and the waste flows down and turns a small wheel by
which a little pestle is set in motion for grinding sub
stances into powder ; everything is arranged most ingeniously
and exactly.
June 5. I prepared for my journey to Dresden. On the
way I saw nothing noteworthy ; the soil was sterile and sandy.
From Berlin I passed through the usual stations of Mitten
walde, Baruth, where Saxony begins, and Luckau, a town of
considerable size ; and afterwards through Sonnenwalde, Esten
wehre, where there is a royal castle, and Grossenhayn, which
is much like Luckau ; and thence I came to Dresden. Mean
while I noticed very beautiful chimneys of terra cotta, upon
which are impressed most telling and conspicuous likenesses
of men, of knights, and of shells ; the corners were
formed by columns of the same material stained an iron
colour.
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