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FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN. 431
are obliged to bring back in cafe of death. If this mark fhould be loft on vifiting the
child, he is erafed from the lift, and the parents no longer receive the fix rix-dollars.
On one fide of mark is a No; in Roman characters; on the reverfe a crown: it is a
fmall piece of lead, like a flug, which cannot be fpoiled but by cutting. The funds of
this in{titution are, 1. three thoufand tons of wheat, furnifhed by the crown, equivalent,
communibus annis, to gooo rix-dollars. 2. By legacies of individuals, and ceconomy, a
capital has been raifed of from §0 to 60,000 rix-dollars. 3. The College of Juttice,
which receives in depofit the property of the miners, paying no more than 4? per cent.,
and making a far greater profit, is obliged to pay over to this inftitution a proportion of
its fupplies, which feldom amounts to lefs than 3000 dollars perannum. All thefe, ad-
deed to voluntary contributions, form an annual revenue of about 20,000 rix-dollars.
TheKing has delegated the fuperintendance of this eftablifhment to the High Governor of
Stockholm, who appoints three councillors of the city as dire€tors. The have no ho-
norary managers.
The Hojpital of Sabbat/berg, at Kongfholm, near to mineral waters for poor and in-
firm old women, is in a ftate of great neglect.
It will be feen that fomething further is defirable on all thefe eftablifhments; but it
is well known that good is done but by flow degrees ; there has been great improve-
ments of late years, and every thing tends to fatisfy the mind that objects of fuch im-
portance will not continue difregarded: the poverty of the country is in oppofition to
a rapid progrefs, or at leaft one fo rapid as humanity requires; and if the government
does all it can, no one can complain,
Cuap. VIII.—Manufadtories and Manufaétures. — Merchants. —Workmen.
Swedifh manufactures are yet very wide of perfection; the workmen are negligent,
idle, and void of emulation; they fometimes begin their week’s labour on Wednefday,
and never before Tuefday, or if they go to their workfhops, it is but to fleep over yef-
terday’s debauch. ‘This, however, does not prevent their infifting on high wages ; the
more they gain, the more they drink, and the want of money alone can make them re-
fume their occupation.
Glafs Houfe. The glafs-houfe is fituated at Kongfholm, and belongs to a fubfcription; it
is under the direction of Mr.Lindblom: glafs ware of all defcriptions is made here, drink-
ing glaffes, decanters, and fome few bottles. ‘The pot-afh is produced in Scania, the
flint is from Pomerania (it is 16 fkillings the ton); the mineral falt from Tripoli; the
Soda from Spain. The glafs is fold by weight ; the cleareft at 16 fkillings per pound.
The only wood ufed in the furnace is pine and fir, which coft from one to two rix-dol-
Jars the cord, according as the winter may happen to be for cold: its annual confump-
tion is fix hundred cords; this meafure is fix feet broad, as many deep, and only three
feet long, which is the length of the billets. This manufaétory has but one furnace in
conftant work ; it lafts at moft but two or three years: within it is conftructed of hewn
ftone, from the ifland of GEland, which tends to fave the wood, without, it is cafed
with brick, ‘and cofts for its conftruction about 200 rix-dollars. It requires three or
four days to heat it; nine hours, at three expofures, to calcine flint, which, at each fe-
veral time of its being withdrawn, is plunged into cold water. It takes five or fix days
to melt the white glafs in the furnace ; other glafs lefs time according to its having more
or lefs colour. It requires three hours to liquify the foda. The clay of which the moulds
are made comes from Cologne: it is half burned, and half unburned, mixed; thefe
moulds
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