^go fortia’s TRAVELS IN SWEDEN .

prifmatic ; rock garnet; garnet in drufes; fteatites ; ftarry afbeftos; calcareous done,i'olid, and in grains ; calcareous fpar ; quartz ; drufes of quartz ; mica; and rock peb-bles, in feveral varieties. From Onlhytta you proceed to Philipjiadt, a town a mile dis-tant : provided you have time to fpare you may vifit feveral interefting fpots in theneighbourhood. Longbanjhitta, two miles diftant, contains a rich iron mine, the great-eft part of which is in hematites : here many curious minerals are found, blue hema-tites in folid grains, fteely grains, fparkling, micacious, and lamellated in leaves ; blackiron ore of fine grain, fibrous, and cryftallized in octaedra; martial pyrites granulated,cryfiallized in drufes ; fparry ftalftein of very rich quality ; manganefe, white, globular,and ftarry within; calcareous fpar; ferruginous gypfum, white and fparkling; drufes offpar, calcareous, in pyramidal cryftals, irregular, capillary in thin hairs; red and brown jaf-p?r, fometimes with fmall veins of iron ore: it takes a beautiful polilh; rock garnet ;drufes of garnets cryftallized; calcareous fchoerle in ftars of large rays; green and yel-low ferpentine; ophites of ferpentine, and calcareous ftone; mountain leather; moun-tain cork, and amianthus. From Philipftadt to Nonnarck, is two miles: this is a moun-tain full of very ancient iron mines, but does not abound in minerals: the iron ore isblack, in fmall and large grains ; cryftallized in thin drufes; galena in fmall cubes ;calcareous fpar which doubles the objefl, and cryftallized in double pyramids ; joinedto each other at their bafe ; mountain leather; mountain cork; fchoerle, fibrous, andftarry. Taberg is another mountain which contains iron mines, and is a great leaguediftant from Normarck; it is famous for the quautity of amianthus it yields : here youmay obtain iron ore, more or lefs granulated and teffilated ; blend with large fhiningTides; martial pyrites, granulated, and cryftallized in cubes ; calcareous fpar; micaci-ous and leafy fteatites ; brown mica ; amianthus, grey, hard, almoft cold, coarfe, white,of a finer quality, lamellated in fine fibres, and blended with calcareous fpar; fchoerle,in fibrous ears ; fometimes fine fpecimens of amianthus are found ; iron ores, pyrites,and mica, united with calcareous fpar; fo that here a very handfome collection may bemade.

You return to Philipftadt, and on the road may examine the iron mine, Agegrufvan,which adjoins the road : .you find here black iron ore, granulated and folid ; fchoerle infriable grains, and cryftallized in prifms ; mountain cork, fometimes fprinkled with gar-ners ; calcareous fpar of feveral colours. In the weftern part of this province, awayfrom the road, are the copper mines of Glafva and Gunarjkog , at prefent abandoned.

From Arboga you proceed to Kongfxur , a fmall town, or borough, pleafantly fituatedat the extremity of lake Meier; we arrived there at eight o’clock in the evening, audnot with Handing the precaution we took, of fending before for horfes, we had to wait forthem till two o’clock in the morning, owing to the ill will of the poft-mafter: fuch de-lays are very frequent in the evening, on account of the poft-mafters being defirous of en-gaging you to fieep at their houfes, and the dread to which the country people are liable ofdriving by night. At times it has occurred that,with the fix horfes we required for our car-riage, fix poftillions came, and at others only one. In Scania and in Bleking, they aremore refolute. On the evening of our arrival there happened to be an affemblyat the veryhoufe at which we flopped, Our drefs appearing, doubtlefs, ftrange to them, the wholecompany came in files, of three or four at a time, into bur chamber, to take a view of theforeigners. After this ceremony, which ferved to amufe us, and exhibited the whole ofthe beauties of the neighbourhood, (unfortunately but few,) we fignified our defire ofparticipating in an entertainment fo much at hand; our requeft was readily granted,and from all the company we received the greateft civilities; at fupper-time, but for ourpertinacious refiftance to the challenges made us, we Ihould have been unable to conti-

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