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The Floral King. 59
cold on the Alps, when these catch the wild Alpine
snipes, and they could tell us how great the heat
becomes in the summer between the Alps.
“They could discover various useful kinds of
stones amongst the crags, which consists of different
kinds from ours.
“They might teach people to gather and hew
these stones (Saxum tritorium) from which the
Norwegians make those splendid ‘ murkqvarnar’
(millstones) which they sell all over Europe.
“They would find out where the iron sand is
generated which by the rivers is brought to Simum
bothnicum.
“‘They would be sure to discover tin-metal in the
Alps, where all stones are full of granites ; yea, in-
fallibly also of gold ore, besides other precious metals ;
if they themselves understood the stone sorts.
“They could seek to find if in the Alps were any
chalk with fetrifications, and if there are any proofs
of the shores of former seas.
“They would be sure to find umbra and other
vave earth sorts, all the more as the earth there is
very brown.
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