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Doc. 205.] 25
SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS IN 1733.
there with some glass-like spar ; silver of a white and
black hue is inserted in the crystals themselves, arranged
in the form of roses. Leather is shown interwoven with
golden threads, work which has been hitherto quite unknown
to Europeans. Some parts of Constantinople are likewise ex
hibited with the Peloponnesus and the sea. It is a town con
sisting of houses, which look very much like one another, and
are built entirely on mountains and hills, with the water
flowing in between. The sultan’s palace with the harem, the
place of abode of his women, is shown ; likewise mosques,
which are their temples and mausoleums. A person is thus
enabled to obtain an idea of Constantinople, and in a certain
sense of the Ottoman Porte itself.
The following books were announced in the literary news :
Histoire métallique des Pays bas, by Mr. van Loon, in both
the French and Dutch languages ; Discours sur les différentes
figures des astres, i. e. a discourse on the various forms of the
constellations, together with a compendious explanation of
Descartes’ and Newton’s systems, by Maupertuis, Paris, 8vo,
1731 , 5 francs.
July 6, new style. * I was able to see a paper-mill
outside the town, where, I think, paper is made in the Dutch
fashion with a cylinder furnished with bronze knives, and a
similar bronze table underneath. There is, however, only one
simple grinder or cylinder around a wheel, and not four as in
Holland.
I afterwards examined the furnace and the forge where
copper is beaten into thin plates with three hammers. The
furnace is like a common iron furnace. A pound of thin
beaten copper is sold for nine groschen, or twenty-seven
Swedish silver öre.
* The improved calendar of Pope Gregory XIII had not been intro
duced into Sweden at the time Swedenborg was writing this account of
his travels. On arriving in Germany, where the Gregorian calendar had
been universally adopted in 1700, he therefore found himself eleven days
behind. The Swedish or old style he followed until June 20 ; from June 20
to 25 he gives his dates both according to the old and new styles; but
after June 25, old style, which is equivalent to July 5, new style, he passes
on at once to July 6, new style.
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