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Doc. 205.] 39
SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS IN 1733.
house ; 4. Likewise the magnificent palaces of others, dukes
and counts. 5. I visited the church of St. Loretto or of the
Franciscans ; the church itself is small, and is surrounded by
cloisters studded with paintings, chapels, and altars. 6. There,
in St. Loretto, I succeeded in seeing their treasury, where are
monstrances, urns, crosses, vessels, hearts, altar ornaments, &c.
of massive silver; there were also many articles of gold. In
one monstrance was such a collection of pearls, that I could
not sufficiently admire it ; one pearl was so large, that its
value could not be estimated ; there were several others like
it, but irregular ; there was one large pearl suspended from
it which was perfectly round ; besides many others. One mon
strance, however, the present of a countess, surpassed all the
others; it consisted of 6666 diamonds, many of which were so
large as to be worth from 2000 to 3000 imperial thalers ; the
whole monstrance, however, must have cost from 150,000 to
200,000 florins, or from 75,000 to 100,000 imperial thalers.
But the whole treasure must represent a value of from 600,000
to 800,000 imperial thalers. I saw also the building [die
Burg, the castle], where the assemblies are held four times in
the year; likewise the place where three men were thrown out
of a window and fell down unharmed ; three columns are
erected there ; there is also a bronze statue of St. George,
which is most skilfully cast and life-like. From this place I
could obtain a view of the whole city, which is very large. I
saw also the place where the women fought against the married
men ; the palace and fortified castle, where Lobomisia,[?] the
mother of Wenceslaus,* with her carriage and horses, fell
through the earth and was swallowed up ; besides many other
things. 7. Afterwards I went to see the Church of St. Nicho
las or of the Jesuits, with their house ; they have several
churches and splendid edifices. In the town of Prague there
are more than a hundred churches and fifty monasteries ; it
contains about 80,000 inhabitants. 8. I passed through the
market-place and the quarter where the Jews live ; everything
there was unclean and filthy. 9. From the mountain where
✦ Wenceslaus, the first Christian Duke of Bohemia, was the son of
Wratislaw and Drakomira, not Lobomisia.
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