The Moetal Remains of Swedenboeg 29 



iites of the proceedings [Appendix, No. 12), for which reason only the 

 most important points need here be treated. 



Upon the outer coffin of oak, which had shortly before been 

 procured in London [Aiypendix, No. 11), being opened, it was found to 

 contain an older, comparatively well preserved casket, also of oak, 

 which is without doubt the one procured in 1853 [Appendix, No. 8), 

 upon the lid and head-end of which were fastened the leaden name- 

 plates reproduced in figures 9 and 10, both bearing the inscription: 



The. 



Me I 



Hon: Eman: 

 Swedenborg 



ih h 



Died 29 Mar: 

 1772. 

 Aged 84. 

 Within this coffin again there was found a leaden coffin, the lid 

 of which was, for the most part, separated from the side-walls, and 

 which showed a fissure along the middle portion of the junction between 

 the left side-wall and the bottom, through which a slight portion of the 

 contents of the coffin had fallen out into the enclosing wooden casket. 

 At about the height of the breast there were found on the lid of the 

 leaden coffin four rivet holes, the same distance apart as the nail holes 

 on the name-plate which sat at the head-end of the wooden coffin,' 

 and within the square formed by the rivet holes, is seen an incision 

 through the lid in the form of a V. (Plate I., fig. 1). Other marks also 

 indicate that the name-plate mentioned above had originally been fast- 

 ened to the lid of the leaden coffin, and it seems likely that it had been 

 loosened when the coffin was first opened, about 1790, and the incision 

 made in this place in order that it might be hidden by the replacing 

 of the name-plate. However, the opening made in this manner was 

 clearly not in a position to show sufficiently the features of the face, 

 still less large enough to allo\\- the extraction through it of a skull, 

 wherefore it is safe to assume that the lid had become partially sepa- 

 rated from the side-walls as early as about 1790, and in any ease be- 

 fore 1816. For half the length of the casket, measuring from the head- 

 end, the edges also show a tarnished, oxidized surface, indicating that 



1 The unessential difference of V'2 cm. in the one direction (Compare points 4 and 

 19 in tlie minutes, Appendix, No 12). seems clearly due to an inaccuracy in measurement. 



