FORTIA’s TRAVELS IN SWEDEN.

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put in calks and Tent to Stockholm . A very fmall warehoufe of tea and coffee urns,bronzed in the Englifh ftile; the manner in which'it is done is kept a fecret, all welearned was, that the different articles were daubed over with a brufh with variouscolours. A place in which pots and- pans, &c. are manufactured. It contains a fur-nace, five working benches, and feveral anvils. In the court is a wooden horfe for thepunifhment of diforderly workmen.

A hundred workmen are employed, who receive by the fchippund of work done, ac-cording to what defcription of work it may be, from io to ioo {killings: 40 {killingsare thus divided, the foreman has fix dollars, the headman under him four, the fecondthree, and the lad two dollars. We faw a child there whofe hair was abfolutely green,the refult as we w'ere told, of his being expofed to the vapours of copper. Before 1 777this manufactory belonged to the crown ; it was then granted to the proprietors of themine of Fahlun.

The town contains feven hundred inhabitants ; the pavement here is as deteftable asin other towns of Sweden , where it is worfe than in any other country.

At a good half league from Afveftad, are the brafs works of Biurfors , belonging toMr. Vahrendorf. There are five in Sweden at the following places, Norkiceuping,Nikoeuping, Gufum, and Skultuna; of the laft, which we faw, we {hall fpeak as weproceed; the method is the fame ufed in all, the only difference of them is, fome furnifhmore brafs than others.

Provided one have time, an excurfion may be made to Norberg , two miles diftant.Here it is that the new canal of Stromjholm begins, which ends in the Mceler lake: inanother chapter we {hall fpeak of it in the order of our travels.

Norberg. A quarter of a mile from this village are mines, famous not only for thevariety of veins and the quantity of ore they produce, but alfo for the curious mineralsthey afford ; yet mtift it not be expeCted that all the poflible variety of minerals will befound here in one day : amateurs will have occafion for fome time to examine all theproduce of the mines and what may be gathered from the rubbifh, and fpite even offuch delay, fome rare pieces may efcape them which are only met with occafionally andat intervals in the veins. ' The mines are chiefly of iron, there are fome copper, butthefe moftly abandoned: here in the mineral kingdom are found hematites of a blueifhcolour, folid, lamillated, micacious, fine grained, and fparkling: thefe varieties are prin-cipally found in quartz. Black iron ore, fometimes of a fhining furface, granulated in-fine grains, cryftallized in polygons, oCtaedra, cubes, and rhoniboides. Native copperarborized in folid and fuperficial branches: native copper is fometimes met with in Gri-orflan mine among the iron ore. Superficial mountain blue. Mountain green. Copper oreof a red, azure, greenifh yellow, and pale yellow colour. Green, white, and violet colour-ed fluor in oftaedral cryftals. Mineral pitch. Druzes of topazes, differently clouded.Druzes of pale amethyfis, of cryftals of grey and white quartz ; the cryftals are rarelyprifmatic : fometimes however common rock cryftal is met with, although fmall. White' and grey quartz. Red feidtfpar in hexagonal plates, with fhort points of three facets;thefe cryftals are frequently covered with a quartz, like cryftalline cruft. Staljiein, orwhite tin ore in fine grains, white in the mine, but which blackens when expofed to theair. At a mile and a quarter from Vejlanfors , is a copper mine deferted, a furnace andiron forge. After this excurfion, you return to Afveftadt.

From Afveftadt we proceed by Gredpsu to Setter, three miles and a half diftant.The roads were not in good order on account of jts thawing, (in April) notwithftand-ing the banks were yet covered with a quantity of fnow, particularly on the fecond ftage■which traverles a very long foreft. On leaving Afveftadt you have a charming profpect