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otherwife. Some years the larger anchors have been fent to Stockholm all the way byland, in order to forward them the quicker. They cod from 16 to 19 and 20 rix-dollars the Schippund, according to their fize. The iron at from to 8 rix-dollars.The mark on the anchors is a crown, beneath an S, and in fmalier characters a C anda G. The annual confumption of the manufactory is twenty thoufand lads of charcoal,twelve tons to the lad; the price of each of which is 21 fchillings. Each furnace re-quires twenty men when large anchors are forged, who are relieved every twelvehours; the other furnaces feldom employ more than three men. To forge large an-chors requires at lead thirteen or fourteen days. At Sudersfors as much deel is madeas is necelfary for the workmen’s tools: the obftacle to their manufacturing more isthe want of fea-coal, which is very rare in Sweden . (The Count de Ruuth has metwith it on one of his edates in Scania, but it is of an indifferent quality.) A headmanearns 50 rix-dollars per annum ; befides thefe wages he is furnifhed with a houfe tolive in, has his grain afforded him at half price, and provender for four cows; theother workmen 4 fchillings per diem, an habitation, and provender for one or twocows. The edate not fupplying of itfelf a fufficient quantity of grain, although twomiles in extent, the proprietor is under the neceffity of purchafing annually two thou-fand tons. Upon the edate there is befides a mill for fawing planks, and afmall dockfor building of Hoops and boats ; eight large ones we faw, carrying each one mad.To thefe mud be added every trade requifite to a colony feparated from fociety, fuchas carpenters, wheelwrights, glaziers. &c. The falary of the mader of the furnace is100 rix-dollars; he is paid more than any other workmen, his work being the mod dif-ficult of any. At Sudersfors there are about 600 perfons, from 120 to 130 of whomare employed at the forge. The total expence of the edablifhment is 25,000 rix-dol-lars. As to the fcor'ue , of which the bricks are made, they are run when in a date offufion into moulds of the form required ; thefe bricks are very durable. At Suderf-fors we were fhewn a building cafed forty years before with thefe bricks, which hadreceived no injury from time. At Fahlun experiments of a fimilar defcription havebeen made without fuccefs, the fcorias at that place being too brittle and too highly im-pregnated with fulphur. Many houfes at Sudersfors are covered with the bark of thebirch tree, over which thefe fcorise are laid to keep the bark level. This mode of cover-ing houfes is the mod ceconomical, but makes the roof prefs more heavy on the tim-bers. The malady to which the workmen are mod fubjedt is the erifipelas in the legs,owing to their being employed in fidiing when not occupied at the forge, and their beingmuch expofed to the wet. For the fervice of the forge twenty-eight horfes are kept.Near the bridge by which you fird enter is a lockfmith’s fhop', with one furnace and afmall hammer. On the famepremifes are a turner’s lathe for wood, and a brick or tilekiln, a blackfmith’s diop, a granary, a flour mill, and a charitable edablilhment for the■widows of the men employed at the forge. From the bridge you have a pleafing viewof the new church : this is a pretty building, and capacious enough ; it is built of brickwith the Angle exception of the foundation of cad fcoria. Men were employed in le-velling the ground about it and erecting a very thick wall for an inclofure, on which itis intended to raife iron palifades. Near the church a cemetery and charnel-houfe is tobe condru&ed: the carcafe of the building was complete in April 1791.

The manfion is a very moded wooden building, painted done colour; it is of oneAngle dory, with twelve windows in front: already has it dood a hundred years. Be-fore it are two fmall pavillions, built likewife of wood, painted red, and of one doryalfo. Between the manfion and the building is an extreme fmall parterre. On thefird dory is a fmall gallery, or rather corredore, in which are a number of animalsftuffed, fuch as the elk, rein-deer, &c. In the middle of the caftle is a glafs tower,vol. vi. 3 p whence