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68 SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS AND DIARIES. [Doc. 205.
on entering, sprinkled upon the people. The interior sense
was struck with the priest’s reverence for the supreme Being,
by his innumerable genuflections , and by those of the
youths. The taste alone was left ungratified, except by what
the priest, the participant in all these pleasures, could derive
from the wine which he alone drinks. [Thus] the holy things
of worship are formed for the pleasure of the external senses,
and they are pleasing to the public generally, because with
them the external senses are the channels through which the
remembrance of the Supreme Being has first to enter.
August 18. I travelled to Prague and arrived there on
August 19.
August 19. I reached Prague, and visited several churches,
where I saw also an altar-piece, within which lamps were burn
ing representing the shining heaven. I again entered the church
of St. Vitus, and examined the innumerable sacrificial offer
ings of gold and silver, and likewise the sepulchre of Boles
lavus, which is resplendent with silver.
August 21. I journeyed to the mining town of Eule, where
native gold without any other ores is found in certain strata :
concerning which I will relate the following particulars.
THE PROCESS OF OBTAINING GOLD AT EULE.
These works are said to be very ancient, having been
opened 300 years after the birth of Christ ; but they have
been frequently abandoned. Formerly they yielded so large
a quantity of gold, that many thousand ducats were obtained
every. quarter, as one share in the mines. The hills and
mountains are perforated for a German mile, as well deeply
as near the surface, so that there is scarcely a spot which
has not been examined. Among the subterranean passages
there are some that are continued for two miles. Formerly
this quantity of gold was found not very deep in the earth ;
but at the present day they have gone down as far as 300 and
400 ells. Ten or fifteen years ago gold was also found here
in a quarter of an hour which was worth about 1000 ducats ;
nor was it very far from the surface. At the present day not
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