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to 600 rix-dollars, he has moreover a dwelling, and like the workmen is furnifhedwith charcoal and grain at half price. Iron is extracted from the drofs the fame as atSuderfors, and as well as at Suderfors they here make bricks of it for building. Theirgrain is dried by a flue, through which the fumes from the furnace are conducted beneath{heets imperceptibly bored and inclined the fame as the roof of a houfe ; flues for thispurpofe proceed from the two furnaces belonging to the hammer on the fide. Thereare two chambers of this defcription, each of which dries twenty tons every twenty-four,hours. They are a contrivance of Mr. Veftrceun, and have been very generallyadopted.

From CEufterby to Bru is half a mile, (it will be neceffary to pre-advife one of theclerks belonging to the forge of the time at which you wifli to depart, as there are nohorfes at CEufterby.) To Hokanjbo one mile and a half. This poft-houfe is fome dif-tance out of the great road, on the right; at a quarter of the diftance of this laft ftage,there is another road to the right which leads to Forfmarck, a fimilar diftance. ToLceufta three quarters of a mile; from the inftant of leaving the road to Forfmarckyou have nothing but ioreft, and will decide which of thefe two forges you will vifitfirft, according to your courfe afterwards being either northward to Gefle, or fouthwardon return to Stockholm, or to regain the high road to Finland .

Lceujta. The inn is at the extremity of a long ftreet planted with trees; on one fideare the houfes of the work people and perfons employed, on the other, of the depend-ants on the caftle, which is of one ftory and pretty enough, but not equally fo, in ourelteem, with that of CEufterby; as you enter the court on the right hand you find twofinall apartments; upon the gardens are five apartments in fucceffion, among which arethe faloon and dining-room; the furniture is of a common defcription ; there are fomefamily piftures, and paintings of Italian monuments. A Cleopatra in tapefcry, much ex-tolled, which had no charms for us, and which is valuable but on account of the perfonfrom whom it was received by the poffeffor. Among the portraits, that of Charles deGeer is diftinguifhable; the firft who came from Holland to Sweden in 1652. Hewas proprietor of the eftates of Finfpongs, Lceufta , Gimo, CEufterby, Godegord, andSkilberg. On the firft ftory are fome very plain apartments. The gardens are hand-fonre, particularly when confidered they are north of 6o e of lat. The library is with-out the caftle ; it does not contain more than leven thoufand volumes, among whichnothing peculiarly valuable, except a folio volume of infedfs and birds, extremely wellpainted in colours. It is a defcription of the cabinet prefented by Charles de Geer ,Marfhal of the Court , to the academy of fciences, where it ftill is under the directionof M. Sparrman. A manufcript of memoirs to ferve to give light to the hiftory of theage in which he lived, written by Charles de Geer , with a number of drawings byhiinfelf, alfo a very beautiful work. Round the caftle are feveral pavillions fgrving for{tables for fixty-four horfes, kitchens, and other offices. A volery, two hot houfescontaining orange-trees, aloes, coffee-trees, &c. A magazin of fowling-pieces, contain-ing at leaft a hundred, with a number of piftols, feveral Runic flicks, and Lapland fur-niture. In a very fmall apartment is a cabinet of natural hiftory.

The forge is very confiderable, it employs four hammers, each of which capable ofworking fifty fchippunds weekly, when in full play; in the w'hole they turn out fromeight to nine thoufand fchippunds at the moft. The pigs are run in other forges in- theneighbourhood belonging likewife to the Baron de Geer. This is done for the fake offaving charcoal which is rare at Lceufta. Nothing is made here but bars; their mannerqf working, the Walloon. The hammers are at a ftand from eight in the morning of

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