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82 SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS AND DIARIES. [Doc. 206.
the sea by dykes ; it is as level and beautiful as a garden; water
courses separate the various estates ; it has plantations of trees,
beautiful fields, and large herds of cattle ; rich inhabitants are
there; everything is well built and cultivated. The greater
part of the revenues is derived from this part. From Elms
horn I journeyed to Pinneberg, a Fleck (village), as it is
called. At five o’clock in the afternoon I arrived in Ham
burg , travelling on land from Copenhagen to Hamburg fifty
two miles and by sea six miles, altogether fifty-eight miles. I took
lodgings in the Black Eagle. My travelling companion was
a Danish merchant, residing at Bordeaux ; his name is Johan
Klöker from Copenhagen.
July 31. I conversed with Commissary König,* and George
Schneider, a captain and merchant.
August 1. With Commissary König, brother Cederström,
and the director I went to the porcelain works, where I
examined the ovens and specimens of their work ; it does
not equal ours in Stockholm. I enquired about the govern
ment in Hamburg : it consists of four burgomasters, two of
whom alternate each year, twenty-four councilmen , five syndics,
three secretaries, and one proto-notary. The salary of burgo
master amounts to 4000 rix-dalers ; the largest income is that
of the secretaries and ofthe proto-notary, who earn from 8000
to 12,000 rix-dalers.
August 2. I called upon Pastor Christopher Wolf,100 of
St. Catharine’s church. He showed me a collection of original
letters from learned men filling sixty volumes in folio and
quarto; he showed me also an autograph collection of the names
of more than a thousand learned men ; likewise manuscripts
in the oriental languages. The collection of letters he obtained
from Schminkius, a burgomaster of Frankfort. I dined with
a so-called Prince of Mogul, a swell (un étourdi).
* Johan Frederic König was the Swedish Postal Commissary in Ham
burg; in 1738 he became the Swedish agent, and in 1747 resident consul.
He died in 1759. He saw a splendid German edition of Dr. Nordberg’s
Life of Charles XII through the press, concerning which see Document 199.
The letter of introduction from Bishop Ericus Benzelius, which Sweden
borg delivered on this occasion, is preserved in the Public Library in Ham
burg; it is Document 122.
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