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FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN. $45
feventy-five ells in length by fifty. From that inftant he becomes a proprietor, and
works on what branch he pleafes: if defirous of buying a houfe, it is afforded him at
half its value, and he pays on this ftipulated price 6 per cent. per annum for twenty
years, after which it becomes his in perpetuity.
Mr. Chriftian Johanfin paints: different pretty things in a charming manner upon
fteel, fuch as, he fays, cannot be done in England: this however is doubtful, for we
have feen fimilar in France which did not come from £fi/funa. His principal em-
ployment is damafquining {words for officers, the expence of which is 2 rix-dollars, 8
fchillings each. He makes buttons with landfcapes on them, which are as high as 16
dkillings each; fciffors at from 4o {killings to 2 rix-dollars, and other inconfiderable ar-
ticles. He fells in Sweden alone, and has but one workman. ‘There is here a manu-
factory of fword blades and fabres for the army. ‘The. iron tempered into fteel (which
mutt be of the beft quality) comes from Graningen in Angermania.. The blades of
the fabres of the cuirafliers are three feet long, and colt 1 rix-dollar, 6 tkillings ; of
the huffars, are thirty-four inches long, and coft 1 rix-dollar, 16 {chillings; of the
dragoons, thirty-three inches, nine lines, and coft 1 rix-dollar 16 {chillings ; of the
cuirafliers of Prince Charles, thirty-fix inches ten lines, at 1 rix dollar, 16 {chillings ;
of the regiment of cavalry of Oftrogothia, thirty-five inches, at 1 rix-dollar, 16 fchil-
lings; the cutlaffes for the navy, twenty-fix inches, and coft 1 rix-dollar, 8 fchillings ;
for the infantry, twenty-three inches, 20 fchillings; forthe miners, twenty-five inches,
three lines, 1 rix-dollar ; for the Savolax regiment of foot, twenty-five inches, ten lines,
a rix-dollar, 8 fchillings; for the dragoons, a ftraight flat fword, thirty-one inches,
eight lines in length, 1 rix-dollar, 8 {chillings: all the manufacturers employed in
the making thefe come from Solingen. Three edged fwords, 1 rix-dollar, and foils,
16 {fkillings. ‘Thefe earn moft of all the workmen, fome even 32 fchillings per diem,
and more ; lock{miths and cutlers earn at leaft 8 or ro fkillings.
There are feven workfhops of two hammers, one of which (very large) for fteel,
and a fmaller for large nails, of which fcarcely more than two are made in a minute.
(It requires three men to manufacture large nails, only one to make {mall ones.) ~The
iron employed is brought from Wefteros. The whole quantity anaually manufactured
is two thoufand fchippunds, half of which in caft articles, and the remainder wrought.
The firft cofts 3 rix-dollars, the other from 6 to 64. ‘There are four furnaces for fteel,
at which none but coarfe work is wrought. The furnaces are made of French clay ;
the principal walls are brick: the principal bottom of double fheets of copper. To
convert the iron into fteel requires ten days fire ; and the confumption of fuel during
the ten days is forty lafts: each laft of twelve tons cofts 32 fkillings. The quantity of
fteel yielded is conitantly from two to three {chippunds more than the weight of iron
put into the furnaces, which arifes from the phlogiften taken up by the iron in its pro-
cefs of ftulification: if the exact quantity putin were yielded the operation would be
deficient (fee the work of Mr. Jars). Frefh fuel is added every fix hours. The fteel
takes twenty days to cool, but lefsin winter. The length of the furnace, in which the
bar iron is placed, intended to be converted into fteel, is four feet ten inches. . Every
ten days eighty fchippunds is turned out of each furnace: neverthelefs no more is
made annually than two thouland {chippunds, and frequently lefs, according to demand.
The greateft part is fhipped for Lifbon. There are two furnaces, and a large hammer
for forging iron bars; of thefe there are made from feven to eight hundred fchippunds,
which quantity might be extended to one thoufand. Six workmen are kept for the
two furnaces, two of which foremen. The foreman receives 12 f{chillings for each
ichippund of iron forged; and pays the two workmen himlelf : they can forge three
VOL. VI. 3 AA {chip.
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