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SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS IN 1738.
Rhone, which flows through Lyons, and which has its origin
in several streams in the Alps. Lyons or the old Lugdunum
is a pretty large and considerable town, containing many large
houses and palaces, especially around the Place Royal [Place
Louis le Grand], where are two large palaces belonging to pri
vate persons. The place is adorned by an equestrian statue
of Louis XIV in bronze, with fountains on each side. Lyons
is a great place for manufacturing galloons, gold and silver
lace, gold and silver cloth, and silk goods. It produces a
great quantity of finely spun gold, the unmanufactured gold
being worth seven-eighths of the manufactured article. Every
year gold to the value of from 300,000 to 400,000 marks in silver
is thus manufactured into gold wire ; it comes from Genoa to
Lyons ; the weight of the gold amounts to upwards of 70 or
80 tons. The Archbishop of Lyons is the primate of the
clergy in France; he has his jurisdiction like the pope. Ville
roy is governor ; he has survivance of the office which is here
ditary. The Jesuits have a large convent where they make
mithridate ;* they have also a fine library which I visited. I
stayed in Lyons for from four to five days.
March 22. I left Lyons for Turin, crossing the Alps, and
finally passing over the last and highest mountain, Mont Cenis,
where we had to undergo much fatigue, and where our
lives were endangered by the snow which had fallen the
previous night , which was so deep that our mules had
fairly to swim in it, and we were obliged to dismount. It
was fortunate that our party consisted of twelve persons be
sides six monks of the Carmelite order, and that we had an
attendance of from fifty to sixty porters who paved a way for
us. The night we passed on the mountain in the Grande
Croix [inn]. Our halting places and the villages which we
passed, were as follows : Bron, [St.] Laurent [de Mure] with a
château, [la] Verpillière, Bourgoin, la Tour de Pin, Viga
borgho [?], Pont de Beauvoisin, where France terminates and
Savoy begins; here too the King of Savoy met his last queen.
Afterwards we came to Chambéry, which is a handsome town,
* An antidote against poison, so called from Mithridates, King of Pontus,
its supposed inventor.
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