TORTIa’s TRAVELS IN SWEDEN.

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moulds will Iafl for four, five, nay even fix months. The price at prefent is from fiveto fix {killings the piece, of fifteen pounds weight; each furnace has fix moulds, oneat each opening : they are twenty-five inches in diameter, fixteen deep, and two and ahalf thick : they require to dry for a year in the open air, and afterwards for fome daysin an oven before they can be ufed. The Hones with which the glafs is polilhed, comesfrom theifland of Gothland,' and fometimes from Dalecarlia. 'i he number of work-men is above thirty, fo many being employed on drinking-glaffes ; their pay is eight{killings per day. The annual amount of fale of its manufactured articles, is from 50to 60,000 rix-dollars.

Foundry of Mr. Afplund. This foundry is fituated oppofite to the Spinhaus, on theother fide of the lake, it is very handfome, and very compleat. Mr. Afplund engagesto execute any orders committed to his care. He makes ufe of no other iron than fuchas has been once before call. The furnaces, of which there are three, are of brick,made by the proprietor; he ufed formerly to import bricks from England; but theycoil him a dollar per hundred nearly, and his annual confumption was fifteen thoufand.At prefent he has managed by grinding the bricks of which the former furnaces werecompofed, and had been thrown afide as ufelefs, and mixing the powder with earth fromGermany , to make very good ones, more lading than the firll; by this means he isno longer under neceflity of importing more than about a thoufand every three years.His furnaces laft for about four months, melting in them two or three times a day.Each fufion confifts of from three to eight fchippunds of iron. The iron fufes in aboutan hour. He works up annually one thoufand five hundred fchippunds. None butmine coal from England is ufed, which colts 9 rix-dollars, 18 {killings per lafl; his an-nual confumption is two hundred laft. When the objeCt to be caft is of fmall fize, themetal in fufion is carried in ladles to the moulds ; when of confiderable fize the metalis conducted to the mould through a hole made in the furnace. When pans or otherarticles are caft, they are fmoothed, and the work is finifhed. If there Ihould chance tobe a hole or any confiderable defect in the work, it is then broken. A hollow columnof iron, thirty-four feet nigh, without the bale or capital, aninch and a half thick, wouldeoft 10 rix-dollars the fchippund, and would weigh 115 fchippunds ; a Corinthian ca-pital would colt two hundred rix-dollars, the whole one thoufand three hundred and fiftyrix-dollars. Mr. Afplund has commenced a manufacture of fteel, on which he alreadyemploys more than a fcore of workmen. We faw fome very pretty buttons there, ofmuch better polifti than thofe of the manufacture of Elvius, but he is refolved on fellingnone until he {hall have a confiderable affortment finilhed. Sixty men, altogether, areemployed in this manufactory, (exclufive of thofe in the (teei works,) forty of which,or thereabout, are at the furnace; according to the work they do, they earn from 16to 20, and even 30 {killings a day, at leaft lour copper dollars.

Mr. Ekerman , a mailer weaver at Kongiholm, has difcovered, he fays, the fecret oftwilling and fpinning, at the fame time, thread and filk together, which renders thewhole not only ftronger, but the operation much more eafy : he readily {hewed us thework itfelf, but not the machinery he employed ; and in order that none may difcoverit, he employs no workmen; after this the public mull form what opinion it pleafes ofthe merit of the difcovery.

The Jleel-works are in the north fuburbs, and belong to Mr. Elvius. This is a neweftablHhment, at which but little is manufactured of much importance. The fituationeven is bad enough, and ought to be changed. The proprietor complains greatly of hiswork people, who, fo foon as they get a little money, never come back again until thewhole is expended : and after acquiring a little information, they feel difp ded to leave6f him,