Scientific and Philosophical Treatises Volume 1, PT. 1 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: REMARKS ON MUSSELS, SNAILS, ETC., IN LIMESTONE; AND ALSO ON SLATE. 1. At Udvalla, just outside of the town, there is found a kind of limestone which consists entirely of mussels. It is taken out of the ground a little below the soil in which [farmers] are wont to sow their seeds. This mussel-stone extends downwards about i or 2 ells [a Swedish ell, aln, = two feet]; and under it there is the hard rock. When the limestone, as in other cases, is burned into lime (kalck), by means of dry and green wood mixed together, a fine lime is produced, which down here at this place is called lime (lint). 2. In the parish of Tunhem it is reported that there is found a mussel-stone of the same kind, of which they are also beginning to make lime, as at Udvalla; the place near which it is found is called Addetorp. 3. In the parish of Skarke, near the rectory at Hojentorp, and thereabouts in the hills and heights, there is found a kind of anthraconite or slate, which perhaps may also be used for making lime. In it are found a great many small insects, in some of it in such abundance, that the stone has been altogether coagulated by them. This is the first published translation of Swedenborg's manuscript, entitled "Anmarckningar om Musslor, Sneckor etc. i kalcksten och om Skifwer," contained in the Photolithographs of Swedenborg's MSS., Vol. I., page 19. Dr. R. L. Tafel does not include this manuscript in his "Chronological Account," although he mentions it elsewhere in the Documents, Vol. II., Part II., page 877, saying that the original manuscript is preserved in the Diocesan Library at Linkoping. The date of this manuscript is probably about 1716-1717. The Swedish text will be found in the first volume of the edition of Swedenborg's scientific works which is being printed by the Royal...