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76 SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS AND DIARIES. [ Doc. 206.
ceive as his salary the remaining 300 dalers in silver ; yet
with the understanding that upon my return home I am to
resume my former position with the right of voting. [ Compare
Document 162, Vol. I, pp. 452 to 455.]
July 10. In the afternoon at two o’clock I left Stockholm,
Fennick, an Englishman, together with Bohman and Hultman,*
accompanying me to Fittja.
The same day there was a severe thunderstorm with light
ning between Norrköping and Ystad, which lasted a long time,
and the like of which had not been known within the memory
of man. The whole sky seemed to be one sheet of fire. In
many places dwellings and people were struck by lightning ;
several gentlemen’s houses in Schonen also were struck and
burnt down ; but no church seems to have been injured. Be
tween Stockholm and Nyköping, however, I did not hear the
least thunder or see any lightning, although I was travelling
during the whole night.
July 11. I arrived at Nyköping where I met Pastor Cröll,
as well as Le Feburet and the Fiscal-Advocate Brock, who
reported to me all about this lightning.
July 12. Upon arriving at Linköping I spent a day and a
night with Bishop Benzelius and my sister Anna Swedenborg.5
July 13. On leaving Linköping I passed through Grenna,
Jönköping, &c.
July 16. I arrived at Helsingborg where I had some con
versation with Lannerstjerna, the Commander of the castle,
and with Burgomaster Sylvius.
July 17. I passed over the Sound to Elsinore against a
headwind and during a storm which had lasted for three days ;
but as soon as I reached the other side it became calm,
and the wind changed. I went to the castle with my passport,
* Messrs. Bohman and Hultman were merchants of Stockholm ; the
latter of whom administered Swedenborg’s property during his absence ;
see Note 111 , Vol. I, and Document 141.
John Henry Le Febure, a merchant of Stockholm, and owner a
large brass-foundry in Norrköping. He died in Stockholm in 1767.
Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lannerstjerna, born in 1680, who had been
severely wounded in the war against Russia, and since 1711 had been com
mander of the castle at Helsingborg. He died in 1748.
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