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434 FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN.
This manufactory employs no more than five or fix hands. The warehoufe is very exten-
five. There are a confiderable number of tubs, and an immenfe ftock of urine. The
mofs is ftirred about in the tubs with large flicks, formed at the end in fhape of an oar.
When we faw this manufactory, permiflion from Count Ruuth was requifite ; but the
fecret afluredly cannot long remain fuch.
Manufactory of Silk Stockings, and price of Silks. M. Maezre, a Frenchman, has
a manufactory of filk ftockings, with but four and twenty looms: could he find work-
men, he might employ more; thofe he has ought to make a pair of ftockings daily, but
never do fo ; they are paid a plott per pair for the coarfeft ftockings, and for the fineft,
as much as 36 {killings. M. Mazere manufactures, fix dozem pairs weekly: he is in
poffeffion of two looms, newly invented in France, much lefs complicated than others,
and capable of making two pairs per day. One pound of filk is fufficient at leaft for
five pair. Silk lofes from 28 to 30 per cent. in the fpinning, dyeing, &c. He imports
his filk from different places. All the other manufatories receive theirs from Bur/a,
moftly through Marfeilles, whither it is brought from the Levant. The charges on it
are five per cent. infurance, and three per cent. freight and commiffion, in the whole
about eight per cent. Thefe are the only filks allowed to be exported from Trance.
Their coft at Marfeilles is from 13 to 15 livres, this year, 1791, 17 livres. The filk
employed in the manufacture of ftuffs, handkerchiefs, and ribbons, is partly organized
and partly thrown, brought for the moft part from Bazano, fome little from Leghorn.
The manufacturers of gauzes employ organized and thrown filk in their black gauze,
but China filk alone for their coloured gauze; they receive it from Gottenburg, whither
it is brought by the veffels of the Eaft India Company. Commonly the thrown filk of
Bazano and Leghorn, coft at Hambro’ from three and a half to four rix-dollars banco.
The organized from four to five, and raw filk from three to four, according to quality.
China filk cofts ufually at Stockholm from three and a half to four rix-dollars in f{pecie,.
according to the feafons abroad, and the quantity brought by the Company. In 1791,
it coft four and a half rix-dollars. The filks which come from Hambro’, are expedited
by way of Wifmar, at an expence of five per cent. for freight, infurance, and commif-
fion. The courfe of exchange between Stockholm and Hambro’, before the creation
of Rik/ens notes, was from 44 to 47 fkillings per rix-dollar banco of Hambro’. At pre-
fent paying in riks gold, it is 54 {killings and ro per cent. agio. ‘The duty on the im- -
portation of filk ftockings, is 21 dollars per dozen: filk ftufis pay 124 per cent. all other
filk manufactures are prohibited. If the King or his minifters by licenfe import any of
thefe articles, they pay 75 per 100 duty.
The Manufaétory of Mr. Appelquift. Mr. Appelquift is a fkilful mechanift, poffeffed
of a very fine eftablifhment at Kongfholm : he manufactures in iron, fteel, copper, and
wood, and undertakes any orders in thefe articles that are given to him. His warehoufe
is very handfome, and all its contents appeared to us of excellent workmanfhip. You
might here conceive yourfelf even in an Englifh warehoufe of the firft confideration :
this artift has travelled to England twice, and fojourned eight years in that country.
From his warehoufe we went into his joiner’s fhop, and a large apartment containing
ten benches, a lath, and a furnace. Here it is where any delicate works in iron, fteel,
or copper, are manufactured. On the ground floor is a forge, with eight anvils, and a
machine for boring cannon: another forge with a large furnace, acted upon by three
pair of bellows, and four anvils. - The cannon foundry joins the forge. It contains
two reverberating furnaces ; in the next room there isa furnace, a lath,. a large anvil,
and two fmaller. -Cannon are founded here of a new defcription, they are of two
pieces; the breech of the cannon ps: made to take off when charged, and put on
3 1 again ;
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