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the fecond furnace is for the latter purpofe. The larged (beets are three yardsand a half long by two yards broad. The moulds are of a great or fmaller fize,according to the intended dimenfions of the {beets. Copper in {beets cods from 6 to7 {killings * per lb. The canal which fupplies the manufactory with water is inter-sected by a number of (takes of moderate height, in order to Hop the courfe of the iceat the top, and prevent its hindering the flowing of the water : with this precaution theworks have not been interrupted by the mod rigid winter. In the laft war betweenEngland and France four thoufand two hundred fchippunds f were annually refined,three thoufand fix hundred of which were made into Iheets for coppering (hips ; atother periods no more than three thoufand fchippunds are manufactured. The otherthree thoufand worked at Fahlun are made into brafs. Here is a magazine of copper{fleets; adjoining one of garkoppar, both inconfiderable. The Iheets for copperingfliips are five feet long by eighteen inches wide j they are packed for the convenienceof tranfport, in the fame manner as glafs, and are fent to Wefteros, whence they are{hipped for Stockholm ; where they can ufe fledges : they are fent to the latter placeby land. The loading of a fledge is at molt but three fchippunds, and the expence oftranfport to Stockholm , fixteen and a half miles diftant, is 12 copper dollars per fchip-pund. Between the two magazines is an office where you write your name, and whereit is ufual to be weighed : this is a fpecies of contribution under which you are laid, andof which you are quit for half a rix-dollar. We faw here coinages of copper defignedfor Poland and France , which required nothing but the ftamp; we were enabled to learnwhat was the charge; they are fent to the merchants of Stockholm who forward them.At this manufactory alfo all forts of iron work are effected. A common faw-mill forcutting planks. In another building two cylinders in metal, for rolling of copper intoIheets, particularly Iheets for coppering of fliips; in front of thefe cylinders are fur-naces in which wood alone is uled; and under the fame roof a heavy hammer with afurnace, a pair of hand {hears to cut the copper flieets with, and one of a larger fizeworked by water. A building containing an iron forge, in which is a furnace and large -'hammer. Another for coinage : the machine for cutting the pieces of copper confiftsof two wheels, each having eight bands fitting each other, of the breadth of the intendedcoin, the Iheet is pafifed between thefe two wheels, and is cut by them into eight rib-bons ; thefe are pafled between the cylinders to give them the requifite thicknefs of theintended coin, and are afterwards placed between two pieces of iron which cut themwith the greateft facility and give them the requifite Ihape; this machine, of very fimpleconftruction, is worked by w'ater: there are two, one correfponding with the other.From a fmall neighbouring efplanade you behold a fall of the Dahl, which is very broad;in order that water may never be wanted, a cut has been contrived to the manufactorywith a lock. Never fince 1768 has there been any Swedifli coinage, unlefs of Pollet, acoin peculiar to Dalecarlia, worth a {killing and a quarter. There is a building in whichare two common calks full of holes, into which the pieces cut as above defcribed, arethrown to polilh by means of the motion given by water to the calks, over which fmallgutters conflantly throw water: the pieces receive polilh Amply by friction, afterwardsthey are dried in fmall furnaces ; this laft operation is of very ihort duration, an hour,or at moft an hour and a half, this done, the pieces are ready to receive the impreffion.
In the fame place is a machine for the falhioning of cylinders, ah apartment in whichwomen are occupied in feparating the bad and good pieces of copper, whence they are
* From 7d. to 8|d. per pound. Copper in England has been as high as ipd. is now, 1807, at 13d.
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