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This manufactory employs no more than five or fix hands. The warehoufe is very ex ten-five. There are confiderable number of tubs, and an immenfe flock of urine. Themofs is flirred about in the tubs with large flicks, formed at the end in fliape of an oar.When we faw this manufactory, permiflion from Count Ruuth was requisite ; but thefecret affuredly cannot long remain fuch.
Manufactory of Silk Stockings , and price of Silks . M. Maezre , a Frenchman, hasa manufactory of filk ftockings, with but four and twenty looms : could he find work-men, he might employ morethofe he has ought to make a pair of flockings daily, butnever do fo ; they are paid a plott per pair for the coarfeft ftockings, and for the fineft,as much as 36 {killings. M. Mazere manufactures fix dozen pairs weekly : he is inpoffeffion of two looms, newly invented in France , much lefs complicated than others,and capable of making two pairs per day. One pound of filk is fufficient at leaft forfive pair. Silk lofes from 28 to 30 per cent, in the fpinning, dyeing, &c. He importshis filk from different places. All the other manufactories receive theirs from Burfa,moftly through Marfeilles, whither it is brought from the Levant. The charges on itare five per cent, infurance, and three per cent, freight and commiflion, in the wholeabout eight per cent. Thefe are the only filks allowed to be exported from France .Their coft at Marfeilles is from 13 to 15 livres, this year, 1791, 17 livres. The filkemployed in the manufacture of fluffs, handkerchiefs, and ribbons, is partly organizedand partly thrown, brought for the moft part from Bazano, fome little from Leghorn .The manufacturers of gauzes employ organized and thrown filk in their black gauze,,but China filk alone for their coloured gauze; they receive it from Gottenburg, whitherit is brought by the veffels of the Eaft India Company. Commonly the thrown filk ofBazano and Leghorn , coft at Hambro’ from three and a half to four rix-doilars banco.The organized from four to five, and raw filk from three to four, according to quality.China filk cofts ufually at Stockholm from three and a half to four rix-doilars in fpecie,according to the feafons abroad, and the quantity brought by the Company. In 1791,it coft four and a half rix-doilars. The filks •which come from Hambro’, are expeditedby way of Wifmar, at an expence of five per cent, for freight, infurance, and commif-fion. The courfe of exchange between Stockholm and Hambro’, before the creationof Rikfens notes, was from 44 to 47 fkillings per rix-dollar banco of Hambro’. Atpre-fent paying in riks gold , it,is 54 fkillings and 10 per cent agio. The duty on the im-portation of filk ftockings, is 21 dollars per dozen: filk fluffs pay 1 1 \ per cent, all otherfilk manufactures are prohibited. If the King or his rninifters by licenfe import an, ofthefe articles, they pay 75 per 100 duty.
The Manufactory of Mr. Appelquijl. Mr. Appelquift is a fkilful mechanift, pofieiledof a very fine eflablilhment at Kongfholm : he manufactures in iron, fteel, copper, -,ndwood, and undertakes any orders in thefe articles that are given to him. His warehoufeis very handfome, and all its contents appeared to us of excellent workmanfhip. foumight here conceive yourfelf even in an Englifli warehoufe of the firft confideration :this artift has travelled to England twice, and fojourned eight years in that country.From his warehoufe we went into his joiner’s fhop, and a large apartment c.- rainingten benches, a lath, and a furnace. Here it is where any delicate works in : 11, fteel,or copper, are manufactured. On the ground floor is a forge, with eight .. -vils, and amachine for boring cannon : another forge with a large furnace, ailed ■ non by threepair of bellotvs, and four anvils. The cannon foundry joins the forge. It containstwo reverberating furnaces ; in the next room there is a furnace, a lath, a large anvil,and two fmaller. Cannon are founded here of a new defeription, they are of twopieces; t.he breech of the cannon being made to take off when charged, and put on
it, again;.