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1330 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
diligently pursued at Upsal; so I make my most humble prayer to
Your Royal Majesty for permission.
"JESPER SWEDBERG."
Document 294, B (p. 743), which we published in an abbreviated
form from Mr. White’s second edition, in his first edition of 1867
(I, p. 36) is as follows :
(2.) Bishop Swedberg to the King.
"Brunsbo, October 21 , 1714.
"Most Mighty King, Most Gracious Lord,
"I also have a son, Emanuel Swedberg, who
after having graduated at Upsal, has been for four years pursuing
his studies in England, Holland, and France, and is now staying,
I believe, at Rostock or Greifswalde. In mathematics and mechanics
he may, with God’s help, be useful to Your Majesty, either at the
Academy, or elsewhere.
"For the rest, I will most humbly assure you, that by the grace
of God, I shall so do my duty in proposing people for appointments,
that you shall have no reason to regret your gracious assent.
JESPER SWEDBERG."
Document 294, D (p . 744), in an unabridged form is as follows
(edition of 1867, I, p. 42).
(3.) Bishop Swedberg to Lord Lieutenant Feif [not Pfiff].
"Brunsbo, July 12, 1715.
"May it please Your Excellency,
"My son Emanuel, after five years’ foreign travel,
has at length returned home. I hope he may be found available
for some Academy. He is accomplished in Oriental languages, as
well as European, but especially he is an adept in poetry and mathe
matics. He intends to build himself an Observatory on the Kinne
kulle, which is not far from Skara, where he will try to find out a
method for ascertaining the longitude at sea. For some means, by
which this may be done, many potentates have offered large sums
of money to the discoverer. If there should be an opening at an
Academy here in Sweden, will your Excellency be so kind as advance
him to fill it? With God’s help, he will honour his place.
"JESPER SWEDBERG."
The text of Document 294, E (p. 795), differs in the two editions
in several important particulars. The text in the edition of 1867,
(I, p. 43), is as follows:
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