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458 FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN.
put in cafks and fent to Stockholm. A very {mall warehoufe of tea and coffee urns,
bronzed in the Englifh ftile; the manner in which it is done is kept a fecret, all we
learned was, that the different articles were daubed over with a brufh with various
colours. A place in which pots and pans, &ec. are manufactured. It contains a fur-
nace, five working benches, and feveral anvils. In the court is a wooden horfe for the
punifhment of diforderly workmen.
A hundred workmen are employed, who receive by the fchippund of work done, ac-
cording to what defcription of work it may be, from 10 to 100 {killings: 4o {killings
are thus divided, the foreman has fix dollars, the headman under him four, the fecond
three, and the lad two dollars. We fawa child there whofe hair was abfolutely green,
the refult as we were told, of his being expofed to the vapours of copper. Before 1777
this manufactory belonged to the crown ; it was then granted to the proprietors of the
mine of Fahlun.
‘The town contains feven hundred inhabitants ; the pavement here is as deteftable as
in other towns of Sweden, where it is worfe than in any other country.
At a good half league from Afveltad, are the brafs works of Biurfors, belonging to
Mr. Vahrendorf. There are five in Sweden at the following places, Norkiceuping,
Nikeeuping, Gufum, and Skultuna ; of the laft, which we faw, we fhall fpeak as we
proceed ; the method is the fame ufed in all, the only difference of them is, fome furnifh
more brafs than others.
Provided one have time, an excurfion may be made to Norberg, two miles diftant.
Here it is that the new canal of Strom/holm begins, which ends in the Meeler lake: in
another chapter we {hall fpeak of it in the order of our travels.
Norberg. A quarter of a mile from this village are mines, famous not only for the
variety of veins and the quantity of ore they produce, but alfo for the curious minerals
they afford ; yet muft it not be expected that all the poflible variety of minerals will be
found here in one day: amateurs will have occafion for fome time to examine all the
produce of the mines and what may be gathered from the rubbifh, and fpite even of
fuch delay, fome rare pieces may efcape them which are only met with occafionally and
at intervals in the veins. The mines are chiefly of iron, there are fome copper, but
thefe moftly abandoned: here in the mineral kingdom are found hematites of a blueifh .
colour, folid, lamillated, micacious, fine grained, and fparkling: thefe varieties are prin-
cipally found in quartz. Black iron ore, fometimes of a fhining furface, granulated in
fine grains, cryftallized in polygons, oétaedra, cubes, and rhomboides. Native copper
arborized in folid and fuperficial branches: native copper is fometimes met with in Gri-
ellan mine among the iron ore. Superficial mountain blue. Mountain green. Copper ore
ofa red, azure, greenifh yellow, and pale yellow colour. Green, white, and violet colour-
ed fluor in oétaedral-cry{tals. Mineral pitch. Druzes of topazes, differently clouded.
Druzes of pale amethyits, of cry{tals of grey and white quartz ; the cryftals are rarely
prifmatic : fometimes however common rock cryftal is met with, although {mall. White
and grey quartz. Red feldtfpar in hexagonal plates, with fhort points of three facets 5
_thefe cryftals are frequently covered with a quartz, like cryftalline cruft. Sta//ein, or
white tin orein fine grains, white in the mine, but which blackens when expofed to the
air. Atamileand a quarter from Ve/fanfors, is a copper mine deferted, a furnace and
iron forge. After this excurfion, you return to Afveltadt.
From Afveltadt we proceed by Grodeu to S@ter, three miles and a half diftant.
The roads were not in good order on account of its thawing, (in April) notwith{tand-
ing the banks were yet covered with a quantity of fnow, particularly on the fecond {tage
which traverfes a very long foreft. On leaving Afveftadt you have a charming profpect
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