EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
Of this visit abroad we have the following summary from his Itinerary:—
"In the spring of 1721 I again went abroad, going to Holland by Copenhagen and Hamburg. There I published my Prodromus Principiorum Rerum Naturalium, and several other short treatises in octavo. From Holland I travelled to Aixla-Chapelle, Liège, Cologne, and other adjacent places, examining the mines there. Thence I went to Leipsic, where I published my Miscellanea Observata. Leaving that town I visited all the mines in Saxony, and then returned to Hamburg. From Hamburg I returned to Brunswick and Goslar, and visited all the mines in the Hartz Mountains belonging to the houses of Hanover and Lüneburg. The father-in-law of a son of the Emperor and of a son of the Czar, Duke Louis Rudolph, who resided at Blankenburg, graciously defrayed all my expenses; and on taking leave of him he presented me with a gold medal and a large silver coffee-pot, besides bestowing upon me many other marks of his favor. I then returned to Hamburg, and thence, by way of Stralsund and Ystad, to Stockholm, having been absent one year and three months."
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