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399 FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN 8WEDEN.
prifmatic ; rock garnet; garnet in drufes; fteatites; ftarry afbeftos; calcareous ftone;
folid, and in grains ; calcareous {par ; quartz; drufes of quartz ; mica; and rock peb-
bles, in feveral varieties: From Onfhytta you proceed to Philipfadt, a town a mile dif-
tant: provided you have time to fpare you may vifit feveral interefting fpots in the
neighbourhood. Longban/hitta, two miles diftant, contains a rich iron mine, the great-
eft part of which is in hematites: here many curious minerals are found, blue hema-
tites in folid grains, fteely grains, fparkling, micacious, and lamellated in leaves ; black
iron ore of fine grain, fibrous, and cryftallized in o€taedra; miartial pyrites granulated,
cryftallized in drufes ; {parry ftalftein of very rich quality ; manganefe, white, globular,
and ftarry within; calcareous fpar; ferruginous gypfum, white and fparkling;. drufes of
fpar, calcareous, in pyramidal cryftals, irregular, capillaryin thin hairs; red and brown jaf
per, fometimes with fmall veins of iron ore: it takes a beautiful polifh; rock garnet ;
drufes of garnets cryftallized; calcareous {choerle in ftars of large rays; green and yel-
low ferpentine; ophites of ferpentine, and calcareous {tone; mountain leather; moun-
tain cork, and amianthus. From Philipftadt to Normarck, is two miles: this is a moun-
tain full of very ancient iron mines, but does not abound in minerals: the iron ore is
black, in fmall and large grains; cryftallized in thin drufes; galena in {mall cubes ;
calcareous fpar which doubles the object, and cryftallized in double pyramids ; joined
to each other at their bafe; mountain *2ather; mountain cork; {choerle, fibrous, and
ftarry. Taberg is another mountain which contains iron mines, and is a great league
diftant from Normarck ; it is famous for the quautity of amianthus it yields: here you
may obtain iron ore, more or lefs granulated and teffilated ; blend with large fhining
fides; martial pyrites, granulated, and cryftallized in cubes; calcareous {par ; micaci-
ous and leafy {teatites ; brown mica; amianthus, grey, hard, almoft cold, coarfe, white,
of a finer quality, lamellated in fine fibres, and blended with calcareous {par ; {choerle,
in fibrous ears; fometimes fine fpecimens of amianthus are found ; iron ores, pyrites,
and mica, united with calcareous fpar; fo that here a very handfome colle¢tion may be
made.
You return to Philipftadt, and on the road may examine the iron mine, Agegrufvan,
which adjoins the road: you find here black iron ore, granulated and folid ; ichoerle in
friable grainsz-nd cryftallized in prifms ; mountain cork, fometimes fprinkled with gar-
ners; calcaredus fpar of feveral colours. In the weftern part of this province, away
from the road, are the copper mines of G/afva and Gunar/kog, at prefent abandoned.
From Arboga you proceed to Kong/eur, a {mall town, or borough, pleafantly fituated
at the extremity of lake Meler; we arrived there at eight o’clock in the evening, and
notwithftanding the precaution we took, of fending before for horfes, we had to wait for
them till two o’clock in the morning, owing to the ill will of the poft-mafter: fuch des
lays are very frequent in the evening, on account of the poft-mafters being defirous of en-
gaging you to fleep at their houfes, and the dread to which the country people are liable of ~
driving by night. At times it has occurred that, with the fix horfes we required for our cars
riage, fix pottillions came, and at others only one. In Scania and in Bleking, they are
more refolute. On the evening of our arrival there happened to be an aflemblyat the very
houfe at which we ftopped. Our drefs appearing, doubtlefs, ftrange to them, the whole
company came in files, of three or four ata time, into our chamber, to take a view of the
foreigners. After this ceremony, which ferved to amufe us, and exhibited the whole of
the beauties of the neighbourhood, (unfortunately but few,) we fignified our defire of
participating in an entertainment fo much at hand; our requeft was readily granted,
and from all the company we received the greateft civilities ; at fupper-time, but for our
pertinacious refiftance to the challenges made us, we fhould haye been unable to conti-
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