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pitch ; white and blue fpar; potter’s earth. Bafen&s grufvan , another copper mine be-longing to Ridder Hittann, is fituated a Ihort league from the others ; here you findyellow copper ore ; ore of bifmuth in large fcales ; fcaly molybdene ; tungften, or heavyftone; amianthus, fometimes blended with yellow copper, which gives it a beautifulhue ; quartz in {lender drufes ; potter’s earths, he. as the copper ore is frequently mix-ed with ore of black iron, it is rather difficult to fufe.

From Marieftadt to this place, you travel over plains in an excellent' ftate of cultiva-tion, and tolerably well peopled. This, in many refpects, is one of the belt diftridts inSweden : all Nericia is full of forges and mines. The following are the principal places ;Quijbrau , an iron mine; Winterofa , copper and iron mine; the firft abandoned ; Ax-berg, an iron foundry ; Jarboas^ Nora, Linde , iron mines in the neighbourhood; in thetwo latter, which are near each other, the following varieties are found : ore of blackiron, folid, granulated, cryftallized in odtaedra, difperfed in potter’s earth ; hematites ofa bluilhcaft, lamiilated, micacious and fparkling ; cloudy topazes in drufes; feveral va-rieties of drufes in quartz, and calcareous fpar. Near to Nora is a fmall mine of cop-per, in which is found folid copper ore, of fteely grain ; galena ; granulated ore of co-balt, cryftallized amid the copper ore; calcareous ftone, &c. A mile and a half diftantfrom (Eurebro, is Dylta, a large manufactory of fulphur and green vitriol. The ful-phur is extracted from martial pyrites, which abound here ; it is diftilled in call ironveffels; the refidue is lixiviated, and produces by evaporation,and cryftallization, green*or martial vitriol: the ferruginous ochre which remains, affords a red colour, withwhich the houfes are painted. At Glandjhammer are quarries of calcareous ftone, andfilver mines abandoned. At Garphyttann , two miles further, is a large allum manu-factory ; the ftate quarries are not far diftant and well deferve attention ; here, black al-lum, in Hates, is found of a bituminous qualify, fo that inftead of roafting it, according,to common practice, before it is lixiviated, it is ufed inftead of wood, with much fuc-oefs, for heating cauldrons ; martial pyrites, folid, globular, and cryftallized in great va-riety; indurated marl, frequently of a globular fliape; calcareous ftone; calcareousfpar cryftallized in pyramids; lapis fuillus, brown and grey, fparkling, granulated,fparry, rhomboidal, ftriated, prifmatic, and cryftallized ; calcareous ftone, of a red andbrown colour, &c- From Garphyttann, by Sanua to Hefslek'ulla, is a mile and a half;here you find an iron mine, the ore confifting of black granulated iron; calcareous ipar,white, yellow, and of a violet hue, of a pyramidal fliape, covered with hexagonal cal-careous cryftals in drufes; rocks of granate, cryftallized granate; and green earth ofHefslekulla : all the fpots where thefe are to be found, are near enough to (Eurebro ;the following are much more diftant, and thofe defirous of vifiting them muft dedicatefeveral days to the purpofe on that account. Liufnarburg, or Nyakopperberg, containscopper ore, formerly very rich, but at prefent very poor; it is grey, azure, and yellow;the mine yields, alio, galena, blend, white, violet, coloured, and green fpar; l’choerl,fibrous, ftarry, and cryftallized in many different fhapes ; potter's ftone, he. Helleforshas many mines of filver, which have been worked for a long time, but at prefent areRearly exhaufted, yielding very little; of minerals: galena, in fteely grains, in fmallcubes, and micacious ; yellow copper ore, blend ; arfenical pyrites, folid, and cryftalliz-edin needles ; martial pyrites; calcareous fpar; rock pebbles, red, brown, and black,from Hellefors to Saxan is one mile, thence to Onjhytta another. This ftage isprecifeiyat the foot of mount PerJberg, which is fall of veins of iron ore: by vifiting thefeunnes you may procure folid black iron ore, in fmall and large grains ; martial pyrites,granulated, cryftallized in odtaedra cubical, and in polygons in drufes ; leafy ore of bil-ttuith; amianthus; potter’s ftone 5 fchoerl, fibrous, in fpar, ftarry, cryftallized, and ;

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