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Saturday until Sunday at midnight. Grain is dried here in the fame manner as atCEufterby. This village alfo like that forms a colony of itfelf.

In cafe of flopping but for a few hours at Loeufta, the traveller will do well to retainthehorfes he brings with him, to take him to the firft'poft town, feeing there are noneat Loeufta, and that he will otherwife have to wait. From Loeufta to Rethibo threequarters of a mile ; thence to Forfmarck one mile and a quarter ; although the realdiftance be altogether no more than feven quarters, it is yet the cuftom, upon what ac-count is not known, to exafl: a quarter of a mile more. On the firft ftage the road be-gins to be very narrow, and you pals through nothing but forefts. There is accom-modation for the traveller at the inn at Forfmarck, where he may lodge.

Forfmarck. The manfion-houfe at Forfmarck has a more impofing appearance thaneither of the two preceding ; it is two ftories high ; eleven windows by fix ; a hand-fome court and agreeable gardens, which are the more ftriking from the wildnefs ofthe road to Forfmarck, from which nothing is to be feen but rocks and woods. Theiron is not run into pigs here on account of the fcarcityof charcoal; the eftabliflimenthas two hammers, and forges about three thoufand fchippunds. The ore comes fromOannemora ; the pig iron from the neighbouring forges and from one in Finland , be-longing to Mr. Uggla. There is here a very fmall furnace of the fame fhape as tholein which the pigs are run ; the drofs is founded here which falls from the pigs whenunder the hammer ; when in train there are eight meltings per week, each yieldingfrom three to four lifpunds of iron, The Walloon method is followed here, wherethere ftill remains a number of Walloons. All trades requifite to a colony are followedhere as well as at the other forges, there is likewife a fchool for children. The w r orkat the forges finilhes on Saturday at night, and is refumed on Sunday night. They havehere a machine for drying grain fimilar to thofe at CEufterby and Loeufta: the ware-houfes are handfome and well built. The eftate of Forfmarck was fold by Mr. Jen-nings to Mr. Uggla twelve years ago, for 100,000 rix dollars, it is now worth up-wards of 200,000, The mother of Guftavus Adolphus is faid to have dwelt here-Johannefors is three-eighths of a mile diftant, where there is a fmall hammer for fteel-Works and one for nails ; here alfo axles are made and fprings for carriages. Tire forwheels is made at Forfmarck. To make the fteel they ufe Englilh coal which cofts dnerix-dollar the ton. Here it is that the ore which Mr. Uggla fends to Finland to bemelted is embarked on a canal, and the pig iron returned thence is unloaded ; it isvery near the fea, which here forms a fmall bay and looks molt like a lake. There arehere faw and corn-mills, over the corn-mills is a fmall beh'tdere, w'hence the fea is dis-covered, and where the vifitor inferibes his name in a regifter kept for the purpofe.

From Forfmarck to Norrf cdicka is one mile and a quarter (really one and a half,)dear the firft mile poll there is a road to the left which leads to CEuregrund, a fmall• town and fea-port. To Marka is one mile farther, the road fandy, the country wellWooded ; on the left is diftinguifhed the little town of Ofthammer, and Ihortly afterby the fide of a church you leave the road to Upfal on the left. Before you arrive atthe poft-houfe you keep for forne ftiort diftance along the banks of a lake. To Sandaone mile and a half, nothing but woods and fand, and rocks. Half a mile from thisplace by the fide of the church is a monument erected by Baron Oxenftiern, in memoryof his wife, who died in 1786, it confifts of a fmall iron column furmounted by ahurn with an infeription; beyond is the village cotnpofed of one ftreet, with the hdufesbuilt only on one fide; it is fmall but very well built; on the left you difiinguifh theleat of Baron Oxenftiern, in a charming feite near the fea ; this eftate, called Hargs,

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