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132 SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS AND DIARIES. [Doc. 207.
clock which was struck by lightning in 1670, 1683, 1688,
exactly at 6 o’clock, as marked by the hand. Afterwards I
examined the new fortifications outside the Knieperthor. I
met Carl Jesper Benzelius.154 I examined the works by which
the town is supplied with water; they consist of two Archi
medean screws (
slanggångar).
August 9. After leaving Stralsund I passed through
Dammgarten. In the Mecklenburg territory I passed Ribnitz
in coming to Rostock, where I examined eight churches, five
larger and three smaller ones, and also a convent; the ladies
were, however, at liberty.
Thence I journeyed to Wismar, where there are six churches ;
the best among them are St. Mary’s and St. George’s.
August 11. After leaving Wismar I visited Gadebusch,
where a battle was fought between the Swedes and the Danes,
and then came to Ratzeburg, which is surrounded by a morass*
which we crossed by a long bridge.
August 12. I arrived at Hamburg and took lodgings at
the Kaisershof, where the Countess De la Gardie 150 likewise
stayed. I met Baron Hamilton,155 Reuterholm,156 Trievald,157
König, Assessor Awermann, and was presented to Prince
Augustus ,158 the brother of His Majesty, who spoke Swedish;
afterwards I was presented by Lesch, the marshal in chief, to
His Royal Highness Adolphus Frederic ; 159 I submitted to him
the contents [ of the book], which I am about to have printed,
and showed him the reviews of the former [work].§
August 17. I left Hamburg, and, after crossing the Elbe,
came to Buxtehude. I there saw, to the extent of a [German]
mile, the most charming country I have yet seen in Germany,
having passed through a continuous orchard of apple-, pear-,
plum-, walnut-, chestnut-trees, limes, and elms.
August 18. I came to Bremen, which has good ramparts
and suburbs ; the best is the Neustadt. Near the bridge
* Now a lake.
+ Concerning Agent König see footnote on p. 82.
The book here indicated is the Regnum Animale, which Swedenborg
was about to publish at the Hague.
§ The former work to which Swedenborg here alludes is his Economia
Regni Animalis, which he had published in two volumes in Amsterdam in 1740.
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