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460 FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN.
mine. An amateur may meet here with the following articles: iron ore granulated, in
very friable grains. Lamillated hematites of a blueifh colour. Molybdene. Quartz.
Druzes of quartz. Mineral pitch. Fibrous {choerle, and coarfe and hard amianthus.
It will be feen there is no great variety of curious matters.
The mountain in which this mine is fituated is not very lofty, notwith{tanding which,
the profpect it affords is delightful; from the houfe ofthe infpector, when the horizon
is not overclouded, you may diftinguifh the fleeple of Fahlun ; the pumps are perceived
at a very great diftance, and extend over a large {pace.
From Sceter to Grangue is four miles and a half to the Weft. Here are large and
curious mines of iron; but you have to return thence the fame way you go, and the
road has nothing to recommend it.
From Sceter you may make a flight excurfion to Leefos, where is a filver and copper
mine, fmall but interefting ; it is fituated in the parifh of Skieder ; here is found na-
tive filver very rare. Galena in cubes, fcaly, and fteel grained. Yellow copper ore,
blende, arfenical pyrites, calcareous ftone, fluor of different colours, rather fcarce, rock
flint, and rock horn: after leaving the mine, and vifiting the foundry, you return to
Sceter. If the traveller fhould have leifure, he may take a turn on the oppofite fide to
Grengiefberg, where are feveral iron mines, and where fome curious minerals may be
had; fuch as iron ore, black and folid, granulated, in fine grains and micacious of vari-
ous very lively colours, blue, green, golden, and yellow, cryftallifed in octaedra in the
body of the common ore. Solid hematites of a blueifh colour, lamillated and cellularly
cryttallifed, and micacious and fparkling. Mineral pitch. Micacious and [triated pot-
ter’s ftone. Calcareous cryftals of fpar in flat hexagons, piled irregularly one above
another, and covered with very fine druzes of quartz. Druzes of quartz enveloping
iron ore in fuch m:nner, that the pieces feem like broken nuts of iron ore glued over
with cryftallifed quartz. If defirous of vifiting this mine, the fhorteft way will be from
Hedemora, as well as to go to that of Garpenberg, a mile away on the other fide of the
Dahl, near a {mall lake : thefe are mines of copper which have been worked for a ver
long time, but which at prefent are on the decline ; they belong to Mr. Vahrendorf :
in thefe are found copper ore of grey, yellow, and pale yellow colour. Teffilated and
fcaly galena. Blende. Green fpar, fometimes enamelled at the furface with yellow -
copper ore. Potter’s {tone of different forts. Norrka quartz, or potter’s ftone, en-
crufted with garnets: after vifiting the foundry at this place, you return to Hedemora.
From Sceter to Fahlun, through Naglarby, is three miles and a half; you return by
the way pafled over before, pafs by the fide of the mine which is left at the right, and
afterwards under the gutters of the pumps; along the whole of this {lage you meet
with chinks which prefent infallible indices of a confiderable revolution in this quarter,
they obliging you to make too long circuits, which much lengthen the road you have to
pafs: a little beyond Naglarby you crofs the Dabl, but ere this you find yourfelf clofe
upon Tuna, a mine of zinc and filver, which was prolific in the time of Guftavus Adol-
phus, and from the produce of which he made his prefents ; at prefent it is deferted.
Nearer to Sceter is the old filver mine of Silverget, now abandoned ; two miles from
Tuna is Gagnef, where load{tones of great virtue have been found ; but of thefe at pre-
fent none are to be met with. After crofling the Dadi, we lett the great road and turned
to the right at a place called Ornces, half a mile diftant ; after going over a bridge
acrofs a river and coafting a very pleafant lake, we came to the houle wherein Guftavus
Vafa was concealed in 1520, when purfued by the fatellites of Chriftiern.
This houfe, the conftrudtion of which is fingular, has been conftantly preferved in its
primitive ftate ; the ftaircafe is on the out fide, in the fecond ftory is the room which
was
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