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20 SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS AND DIARIES. [Doc. 205.
burnt in a strong flame. By being exposed to such a flame
the outer portion only is burned and converted into charcoal,
the interior remaining fresh and dry, or safe and intact from
the fire; as may be seen from a piece of wood held in a
strong flame, the outer surface of which is speedily converted
into charcoal, while its interior parts are still intact, and
scarcely heated. The science of mechanics will supply a
thousand modes by which the piles may be placed on trestles,
while combustible matter is placed underneath by which the
flame is to be fed and raised into a blaze ; it will also furnish
means by which the flame, after it has been started on the
surface by having been covered with pitch, can be extinguished,
and indeed after the desired result has been attained. All
this can be very easily determined and settled, provided the
method of burning the piles before they are immersed in the
water, be once approved and adopted.
June 7. I reached Dresden, having accomplished the jour
ney from Stockholm in twenty-eight days. If from these twelve
days are subtracted, during which I rested, it reduces it to a
journey of sixteen days only.
June 9. I visited the new church [Frauenkirche], which
is in the process of erection near the market-place [Neumarkt].
It is interiorly vaulted, with a triple row of seats along the
walls, and on account of its interior decorations most interest
ing and worthy of notice. Under the ground are ample
vaults and cells, or places of burial, occupying a large space.
June 11. I examined the exterior of the royal palace and
of that which adjoins it. They are richly decorated with
figures and statues in terra cotta and plaster of Paris. I
likewise saw that rural or mountain cave, called the grotto,
which is close by, where the water falls down some steps and
over a rock. Permission was granted me to see the entrance
hall, where the ceiling is adorned with beautiful fresco paint
ings. The floor was paved with marble, and in the centre a
marble slab of great size, and consequently of great value,
is displayed.
June 12. With a companion I went into the royal garden
which consists entirely of Indian and foreign trees. The part
on the left is distinguished by cypresses and laurels ; that
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