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Doc. 205.] 31
SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS IN 1733.
very much like hoar-frost, had formed on the outside of the
glass to the thickness of more than the little finger. 2. He
filled to a certain point a phial with most refined oil of vitriol,
and afterwards noticed that the quantity of the liquid increased
in the driest and hottest days. 3. A pendulum which vibrates
a second in Paris is 3 feet 8,556 lines. long, but under the
equator it is 2 lines shorter. The author formed a table of
the length of the pendulum for every latitude :
Under latitude 0 its length must be 3 feet, 6.823 lines,
10 3 6.915
20 3 7.180
30 7.587
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July 12. I again visited the orange garden, or the botanic
garden, and noticed there: 1. A palm-tree with its bark,
leaves, and fruit ; 2. An Egyptian acacia with its thorns ;
3. The sirium Judaicum ; 4. A tall dragon-tree with an un
even stem ; 5. The tree on which coffee berries grow; their
outer portion is eatable, in their interior the beans lie con
cealed ; 6. An orange-tree, the circumference of which is two
ells, its weight ten hundred-weight, and its length two ells.
The trunks are transported from Italy without roots and leaves,
both being cut off; it is placed in a pot with earth and tied
round with moss, and after a year the trunk throws out roots,
and produces twigs and leaves.
I deemed it useful to extract the following from the Biblio
theca Italica concerning the mode in which Mr. Woodward
classifies the minerals, salts, metals, and earths. He does it
in the French language, as follows : [As this classification,
which is contained in the Bibliotheca Italica, Vol. II, p. 117
is entirely out of date, we do not deem it necessary to trans
late it for the benefit of our readers. Swedenborg closes his
extract with the following description of a meteor :] With
respect to the meteor which was seen at Venice in the year
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