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FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN. ‘470
as fine, and the poft duty as well regarded as in any other part of the kingdom. It is
a difmal country to travel through, on account of the immenfe forefts through which
you go, but in which you are perfeétly fecure, as well by night as by day, travelling
through that part of Europe hitherto the leaft infefted with depravity.
It will be neceflary the traveller fhould be provided with letters addreffed to the dif-
ferent governors, who will facilitate his obtaining lodging throughout their provinces :
generally it is the clergy who receive travellers, and all who have made this journey
concur’ in {peaking highly of their kindnefs and attention.
If curious to traverfe a part of Lapland, and. pafs over to Norway by the mountains,
the inftructions fubmitted at the clofe of the following chapter may be followed in full
reliance; but above all, the adventurer mutt be inured to fatigue, and refolved on fub-
mitting to great privations for the fpace of a month at leaft.
From Gefle to Sudersfors is five miles and a half, by E/fscarleby and Méhédé. Be-
fore you reach Elfscarleby, you pafs the Dahl in a boat with oars; the poftillions are
ufed to leave you at the banks, but this muft not be allowed, on account of the next
poft-houfe being at fome diftance from the oppofite bank, whither you mutt either re-
folve on walking, or wait poflibly fome time for horfes. A quarter of a mile beyond
Elfscarleby, you follow a narrow road at the right, which leads to the cataract; it is
commodioufly feen from a faw-mill on the fide, and ftill better from a fmall houfe
built much lower down, on the brink of the river, for falmon fifhing, (the fifhery is
farmed for 7000 copper dollars). This cataract is very curious, and with refpect to
the mafs of water precipitated, is more confiderable than that of Trolhcetta, but with
refpect to the circumjacent fcenery is poflibly lefs picturefque; there are, neverthelefs,
fome great trees, which form a charming per[pective, and we recommend both one and
the other to the traveller’s obfervance. Almoft the whole of the remainder of the
{tage is through a foreft. You turn tothe right in order to reach Méhédé; from Mé-
hédé to Sudersfors is rather a bad crofs road. | On arriving at Sudersfors, you paifs
over a wooden bridge acrofs the Dahl, near which is a very pleafing cafcade; from
it you have an admirable view of the whole breadth of the river, which is extremely
wide.
Sudersfors is an eftate and confiderable forge belonging to Mr. Grill; this is the
only forge in Sweden at which anchors are caft, and what renders it {till more intereft-
ing, the procefs ufed here is entirely different to that in practice elfewhere, where an-
chors are made of bar or wroughtiron, whereas here it is made at once in a mould, of
caftiron. It is affirmed, that anchors made in this manner are at leaft equal in goodnefs
with others; they for certain are lefs expenfive, the iron undergoing one fufion lefs by
the latter procefs. ‘Three thoufand fchippunds are annually manufactured, one thou-
fand of which into bars, and two thoufand into anchors; as many as two thoufand
four hundred have been made occafionally, and even once three thoufand two hundred
during the war between France and England ; thelatter is the largeft poffible quantity
that can be manufaétured. ‘The ore comes from Dannemora, which is the caufe of the
excellence of the iron from this forge, as well as in others that ufe it: this ore on its
arrival is at firft broken, (that at leaft which is in too large pieces,) and is afterwards
carried into the oven into which it is to be thrown: of thefe there are two inthe open
air for roafting the ore; one is forty-two*feet wide by twenty-five; the other, of the
fame form is fomewhat lefs ; both feven feet in depth: the walls are of brick made from
feoria; a layer of wood is laid of the whole extent of the bottom, and as high as the
walls, which is kept burning for the {pace of four weeks ; each procets of the firft oven
furnifhes a fupply tor feven weeks to the great furnace, and of the leffer oven for five
5 weeks
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