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260 TRAVELS
reus, Liun. n feveral places in the vicinity, efpecially in the —
parifhes of Paldamo.and Sotkamo, there is iron-earth, or ochre;
The peafants, without any affiftance from others, make for
themfelves as much good iron and fteel as they have occafion for.
From Sotkamo Mr. Julin * brought, and has in his poffeffion, a
{trong blood-ftone ore, with cryftal ; and this alfo is to be found:
at Kemi. On the fea-fhores of Kemi, near Paldamo and Kala-
joki, you meet with great quantities of black fand impregnated
with iron. In fome places about Kemi, Sotkamo, Kufamo, and
Paldamo, you will light upon a fpecies of flate, the /chiffus arde-
fia, Linn. arranged, I believe, by the late mineralogifts under the
genus of ardefia tegularis. It is not, however, good for roofing.
The moft common fort confifts of fand confolidated by cay, or:
a mixture of clay and quartz.
Befides the grey and:red granite, the moft common {tone here,
you will find a reddifh and clear quartz pebble ftone, flint ftone,
feltfpar, and rock cryftal, being the nitrum quartzofum aqueum,
Linn. Black thorl, (/choerlum fF nigrum) is to be feen in a few
places near Sotkamo and Reovanjemi; in the neighbourhood of the
town, below the quickfands, and on the margins of lakes. Clay pre-
vails throughout the whole of the parifhes of Kemi, Paldamo, and
Sotkamo. You meet with /axum micaceum fiffile cinereum atomis.
interflinctis quartzofis micaceifque, Linn. of various colours, but
moftly of black-grey; as alfo the talcum ollare, Linn. In Pudef-
* This gentleman will be again mentioned hereafter.
+ See Retzic’s Mineralogia, genus Schoerlum, ‘Maine
jerve
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