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Km, expecting to get more with fome other matter: they are paid by the tails. At thismanufactory we met with neither handfome w'orkmanfhip nor magazine'; much isyet to be done ere it become of any confideration. However Mr. Elvius has a fund ofhope.

The fo called Porcelaine manufactory , is a very indifferent manufactory of ware, fimi-lar to that called Delf, and fituated at Kongttiolm. The warehoufe makes a very prettyfigure indeed : a complete fervice for a dozen, in this ware, in the Engiifh tafte coltsfrom 30 to 40 rix-dollars. The manufactory occupies a confiderable extent: part ofthe clay comes from Upfal, and feveral pieces even receive their firft burning there;they ufe likewife clay brought from France and England. The number of workmenemployed is twenty-four, feven of which are painters, and four turners.

Cloth manufactory. We faw that of Mr. Hebbe adjoining the Dannwiken. This isnot the molt confiderable, Mr. Harkins having more than forty looms, Mr. Hebbe nomore than thirteen; each of which produces annually fixteen pieces of cloth, fromeighty to ninety ells in length. The dearefl cloth they manufacture is blue ; it coifs 3dollars the ell; fine cloth, in other colours, from 2 dollars, 15 {killings, to 8 plotts ;common cloth from 4! plotts to 7 ; ftriped woollen cloth from 7! plotts to 8 ; foldierscloth 40 to 42 {killings : the credit three months. In every manufactory there is a cer-tain number of looms ufed for making of cloth for the troops on account of the crown:the cloth is dyed on the premifes. Thofe employed in winding and twilling in themanufactory earn at mod but 5 or 6 plotts in a week, working very hard: the fpinnersearn a great deal, in gaining aplott. All hands counted, three hundred perfons find em-ployment here. The fine cloths are fometimes eleven quarters wide, but the commonbreadth is nine quarters. The wool is imported from Poland and Holland ; it codsfive dollars the lifpund, and lofes 15 per cent, in wafhing. Spanifh wool, according tothe current price, (1791,) cods from 22 to 24 copper-dollars, and lofes 16 to 20 percent, on account of its being more carefully walhed. The wool of the country is at24, 28, and 32 {killings.

Manufactory of Colours. For a long time the Englifh carried on a confiderable traf-fic for modes, at Gottenburgh, produced in abundance in that part of Sweden : peopleWere at a lofs to know what ufe they could be put to ; at length it was difcovered, thatthey extracted from them colours for dyeing: the Count de Ruuth, then minider offinance, refolved on fupplanting the Englilh in this commerce, and enriching his owncountry by the acquifition : he in confequence induced the King to make experiments,which ended in the foundation of the eftablifhment in quedion, entirely upon the royalaccount. The greated part of the mofs called lichen Tartareus , comes from Mardrandand its environs : when dry, it is put under a large wheel with done edges, after hav-ing been ground by it iuto tolerably fmall dud, it is thrown into large wooden tubs,with lime, urine, and other ingredients which remain a fecret. The mixture remainsin thefe for fix months, during which it is dirred every day ; by degrees it thickens,the watery particles evaporate, and it becomes at fird thick as mud, and afterwards of‘the confidence of the marie of grapes; as foon as arrived to this date, it is cut intofmall pieces, and expofed to dry in a large covered apartment. When dried and har-dened, it is pounded in mortars, reduced to a very fine powder, and packed in calks,it is not intended that the fale of it {hall begin until 150,000 pounds weight {hall havebeen prepared. It is reckoned, it will obtain five rix-dollars 26 {killings the lifpund(eighteen and a half poun Is Englifh). A number of experiments have been made withit on woollen cloths, which have perfectly lucceeded : the fineRcolours yet extractedare a violet, a flaxen grey, (gris de lin,) and a plumb colour (prune de Monfieur),vol. vi. 3 k This