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DOCUMENT 207.
SWEDENBORG’S JOURNAL OF TRAVEL
IN 1743.*
July 21. I left Stockholm, and arrived at Ystad on the
27th, after having passed the towns of Tölje, Nyköping, Norr
köping, Linköping, Grenna, and Jönköping. At Ystad I met
the Countess De la Gardie150 with two of her daughters, also
the two counts, her sons, and Count Fersen,151 Major Lantings
hausen,152 and Magister Klingenberg.
July 31. General Stenflycht † arrived with his son and
Captain Schächta. On account of contrary winds we could
not sail until August 5. I travelled in company with General
Stenflycht. On August 6 we arrived at Stralsund.
August 7. Early in the morning we entered Stralsund.
The Countess and the General left the same day. I looked
again at the fortifications of Stralsund from the Badenthor, as
well as from the Franken, Triebseer, and Knieper-thor [see
Document 205, p. 9]. I visited also the house where King
Charles XII had lodged, the Meierfeld Palace, and the churches
of St. Nicholas, St. James (which was reduced to ruins during
the siege), and St. Mary. I visited Colonel Schwerin,153 the
commandant, the Acting Bishop (Superintendent) Löper, and
Postmaster Crivits. In St. Nicholas’ church I was shown a
* The Swedish original of this document is contained in Swedenborg’s
private note-book of the years 1743 and 1744, which is preserved in the
Royal Library in Stockholm, and the contents of which were published in
1859 by Mr. G. E. Klemming, the Royal Librarian, under the title of
"Swedenborg’s Drömmar." A more detailed account of this work will be
given in the Introduction to Document 208. With regard to the genuineness
of the original see Note 149.
+ Concerning General Stenflycht see footnote on p. 92.
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