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feventy-five ells in length by fifty. From, that inftant he becomes a proprietor, andworks on what branch he pleafes : if deiirous of buying a hofife, it is afforded him athalf its value, and he pays on this ftipulated price 6 per cent, per annum for twentyyears, after which it becomes his in perpetuity.
Mr. Chriftian Johanfin paints different pretty things in a charming manner uponfteel, fuch as, he fays, cannot be done in England : this however is doubtful, for wehave feen fitnilar in France which did not come from EJkilJiuna. His principal em-ployment is damafquining fwords for officers, the expence of which is 2 rix-dollars, 8fchillings each. lie makes buttons with landfcapes on them, which are as high as 16{killings each ; feiffors at from 40 {killings to 2 rix-dollars, and other inconfiderable ai>tides. He fells in Sweden alone, and has but one workman. There is here a manu-factory of fvvord blades and fabres for the army. The iron tempered into fteel (whichffiuft be of the beft quality) comes from Graningen in Angermania. The blades ofthe fabrus of the cuiraftiers are three feet long, and coft 1 rix-dollar, 6 {killings ; ofthe hufiars, are thirty-four inches long, and coft 1 rix dollar, 16 fchillings; of thedragoons, thirty-three inches, nine lines, and coft 1 rix-dollar 16 fchillings ; of thecuiraftiers of Prince Charles, thirty-fix inches ten lines, at 1 rix dollar, 16 fchillings ;of the regiment of cavalry of Oftrogothia, thirty-five inches, at 1 rix-dollar, 16 fchil-lings ; the cutlaffes for the navy, twenty-fix inches, and coft 1 rix-dollar, 8 fchillings;for the infantry, twenty-three inches, 20 fchillings j for the miners, twenty-five inches,three lines, 1 rix-dollar ; for the Savolax regiment of foot, twenty-five inches, ten lines,
1 rix-doliar, 8 fchillings; for the dragoons, a ftraight flat fword, thirty-one inches*eight lines in length, 1 rix dollar, 8 fchillings: all the manufacturers employed inthe making thefe come from Solingen . Three edged fwords, 1 rix-dollar, and foils,16 {killings. Thefe earn raoft of all the-workmen, fome even 32 fchillings per diem,and more ; lockfmiths and cutlers earn at leaft 8 or 10 {killings.
1 here are feven workfliops of two hammers, one of which (very large) for fteel,and a fmaller for large nails, of which fcarcely more than two are made in a minute.(It requires three men to manufacture large nails, only one to make fmall ones.) Theiron employed is brought from Wefteros. The whole quantity annually manufacturedis two thoufand fchippunds, half of which in caft articles, and the remainder wrought.The firft colls 3 rix-dollars, the other from 6 to 6|. There are four furnaces for fteel,at which none but coarfe work is wrought. The furnaces are made of French clay;the principal walls are brick : the principal bottom of double Iheets of copper. Toconvert the iron into fteel requires ten days fire ; and the confumption of fuel duringthe ten days is forty lafts: each laft of twelve tons cofts 32 {killings. The quantity offteel yielded is conftantly from two to three fchippunds more than the weight of ironput into the furnaces, which arifes from the phlogiften taken up by the iron in its pro-cefs of ftuiification : if the exaCt quantity put in were yielded the operation would bedeficient (fee the work of Mr. Jars). Frefh fuel is added every fix hours. The fteeltakes twenty days to .cool, but lefs in winter. The length of the furnace, in which thebar iron is placed, intended to be converted into fteel, is four feet ten inches. Everyten days eighty fchippunds is turned out of each furnace: neverthelefs no more ismade annually than two thoufand fchippunds, and frequently lefs, according to demand.The greateft part is {hipped for Lilbon. There are two furnaces, and a large hammerfor forging iron bars ; of thefe there are made from feven to eight hundred fchippunds,v/hich quantity might be extended to one thoufand. Six workmen are kept for thetwo furnaces, two of which foremen. The foreman receives 12 fchillings for eachfchippund of iron forged j and pays the t^ro workmen himfelf : they can forge threevol. vi. 4 a fchip.