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ther twelve: blit nine are fufficient. When the copper is broken and reduced intofmall pieces by the means of fledge hammers, it is put into crucibles of French clay;the dearnefs of this article prompted the proprietors to make fearch for fimilarin Swe-den : it has been found in Scania, and promifes ihortly to equal that of France , whichwill therefore become unnecefl'arv. In order to make it into fheets it is run on a tableof granite, over which another is fufpended ; they are thirteen feet in length by five inbreadth, and from eight to ten inches thick : they come from St. Malo , and coft200 plottes the pair : in general it happens that out of every fhipmcnt the half of whatcomes are bad. It appears aftoniihing that Sweden , which fuperabounds with granite inevery quarter, fhouid be obliged to import it from abroad : that of St. Malo is howeverpreferred on account of the mica and blende being more equally diftributed, and ingreater abundance. For cutting the fheets intended to be drawn into wire, a fimilarmachine is made ufe of to that of the Englifh : when the brafs has been cut and drawn,it is put into a kiln, where it remains for half an hour : it is drawn five times, and eveneight if the wire be required of that finenefs. The packages-of brafs wire are made upto weigh forty pounds ; there are twenty wire-drawing moulds of Heel; the manufac-tory is worked by a cylinder with wings, which the water puts in motion ; the water isfupplied by the Swartz, (black river,) which empties itfelf into the lake at Wefteros, andwhich conftantly furnifhes it in all leafons. In the nine furnaces before mentioned, themetal is melted twice per day, that is every twelve hours ; each melting yields twohundred and forty pounds of brafs. The whole quantity made in a year fcarcely ex-ceeds from fix to feven hundred fchippunds ; it might be extended to one thoufand.The fheets of brafs are five times roafted, and are as often put into the cylinder whichrefembles that at Afrufladt. On coming out they are ten ells long by three feet eightinches in breadth : it undergoes no alteration in its dimenfions. Copper in its trans-formation into brafs gains neariy twenty-five per cent,, the precife quantity depending onthe quality of the calamine. Hungary furnifhes two forts of this article, red and white;Poland but one, which is a reddifh grey: the Hungarian calamine is confidered to bethe belt; it colts \ rix-dollar 43 fchiilings per quintal, (three and a half to the fchip-pund.) The coft of Polifh calamine is 25 rix-dollars per ton of between five and a halfto fix fchippunds, about 1 rix-dollar 12 fchiilings per fchippund: the annual confump-tion of this article is one thoufand two hundred fchippunds of calamine, and three thou-fand lafts of wood. 1 here is likewife'a petty furnace for the running of fmall utenfils*which are afterwards polifhed. The filings are remitted, but experience a lots of 50 percent. In all from fixty to fixty-two workmen are employed. Ihe whole of this ma-nufactory was confumed by fire about ten or twelve years ago : the lofs was enormousto the proprietor, a Mr. Adlervull, to whom the traveller fnould have recommendation.At prefent he has infured the whole, even the wood and charcoal; the infurance forbuildings entirely of wood is two per cent, and from one to one and a half for otherbuildings, according to the quantity of brick and itone contained in them.
From Skultuna we proceeded to Wefteros, the difiance a mile and a half, the roadsfull of holes and bad. As a traveller rarely remains more then a few hours at Skul *tuna, he fhould keep his horfes.
Wefteros is a very ancient city which contains nothing worthy of remark. The tombof Eric XIV. in the cathedral is abfolutely undeferving notice. The fleeple of. thischurch, built on a fquare tower, is reckoned the higheft in Sweden , yet is not veryhigh. At the extremity of a long jetty lined with warehoufes, is the port at whichgreat quantities of iron are fhipped for Stockholm . The left fide, of this jetty is amarfh ; before you arrive hither, you fee the government-houfe, which is a handfoinebuilding. Wefteros is the capital of the province of Weftmania, ose of the fineft in