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430 FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN.
moulds will laft for four, five, nay even fix months. The price at prefent is from. five
to fix fkillings the piece, of fifteen pounds weight ; each furnace has fix moulds, one
at each opening : they are twenty-five inches in diameter, fixteen deep, and two and a
half thick : they require to dry fora year in the open air, and afterwards for fome days
in an oven before they can be ufed. The ftones with which the glafs is polifhed, comes
from the ifland of Gothland, and fometimes from Dalecarlia. ‘i he number of work-
men is above thirty, {o many being employed on drinking-glafles ; their pay is eight
fkillings per day. The annual amount of fale of its manufactured articles, is from 50
to 62,000 rix-dollars.
Foundry of Mr. Ajplund. This foundry is fituated oppofite to the Spinbaus, on the
other fide of the lake, it is very handfome, and very compleat. Mr. Afplund engages
to execute any orders committed to his care. He makes ufe of no other iron than fuch
as has been once before caft. The furnaces, of which there are three, are of brick,
made by the proprietor; he ufed formerly to import bricks from England; but they
coit him a dollar per hundred nearly, and his annual confumption was fifteen thoufand.
At prefent he has managed by grinding the bricks of which the former furnaces were
compoted, and had been thrown afide as ufelefs, and mixing the powder with earth from
Germany, to make very good ones, more lafting than the firft; by this means he is
no longer under neceflity of importing more than about a thoufand every three years.
His furnaces laft for about four months, melting in them two or three times a day.
Each fufion confifts of from three to eight fchippunds of iron. The iron fufes in about
an hour. He works up annually one thoufand five hundred fchippunds. None but
mine coal from England is ufed, which cofts g rix-dollars, 18 {killings per laft; his an-
nual confumption is two hundred laft. When the object to be caft is of {mall fize, the
metal in fufion is carried in ladles to the moulds; when of confiderable fize the metal
is conducted to ihe mould through a hole made in the furnace. When pans or other
articles are caft, they are fmoothed, and the work is finifhed. If there fhould chance to
be a hole or any .confiderable defect in the work, it is then broken. A hollow column
of iron, thirty-four feet high, without the bafe or capital, aninch and a half thick, would
oft to rix-dollars the fchippund, and would weigh 115 {chippunds; a Corinthian ca-
pital would coft two hundred rix-dollars, the whole one thoufand three hundred and fifty
rix-dollars. Mr. Afplund has commenced a manufacture of fteel, on which he already
employs more than a fcore of workmen. ‘We faw fome very pretty buttons there, of
much better polifh than thofe of the mannfa¢ture of Elvius, but he is refolved on felling
none until he fhall have a confiderable affortment finifhed. Sixty men, altogether, are
employed in this manufactory, (exclufive of thofe in the tteel works,).forty of which,
or thereabout, are at the furnace; according to the work they do, they earn from 16
to 20, and even 30 fkillings a day, at Jeaft four copper dollars.
Mr. Ekerman,.a matter weaver at Kongfholm, has difcovered, he fays, the fecret of
twilting and {pinning, at the fame time, thread and filk together, which renders the
whole not only ftronger, but the operation much more eafy : he readily fhewed us the
work itfelf; but not the machinery he employed ; and in order that none may difcover
it, he employs no workmen; after this the public muft form what opinion it pleafes of
the merit of the difcovery.
The fteel-works are in the north fuburbs, and belong to Mr. Elvius. This isa new
eftablifhment, at which but little is manufactured of much importance. ‘The fituation
even is bad enough, and ought to be changed. The proprietor complains greatly of his
work people, who, fo foon as they get a little money, never come back again until the
whole is expended : and after acquiring a little information, they feel difp fed to leave
6t him,
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