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548 FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN.
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ther twelve: but nine are fufficient. When the copper is broken and reduced into
fmall pieces by the means of fledge hammers, it is put into crucibles of French clay ;
the dearnefs of this article prompted the proprietors to make fearch for fimilarin Swe-
den; it has been found in Scania, and promifes fhortly to equal that of France, which
will therefore become unneceflary. In order to make it into fheets it is runon a table
of granite, over which another is fufpended; they are thirteen feet in length by five in
breadth, and from eight to ten inches thick: they come from St. Malo, and coft
200 plottes the pair: in general it happens that out of every fhipment the half of what
comes are bad. It appears aftonifhing that Sweden, which fuperabounds with granite in
every quarter, fhould be obliged to import it from abroad : that of St. Malo is however
preferred on account of the mica and blende being more equally diftributed, and in
greater abundance. Fox cutting the fheets intended to be drawn into wire, a fimilar
machine is made ufe of to that of the Englifh ; when the brafs has been cut and drawn,
itis put into a kiln, where it remains for half an hour: it is drawn five times, and even
eight if the wire be required of that finenefs. ‘The packages of brafs wire are made up
to weigh forty pounds; there are twenty wire-drawing moulds of fteel ; the manufac-
tory is worked by a cylinder with wings, which the water puts in motion; the water is
fupplied by the Swartz, (black river,) which empties itfelf into the lake at Wefteros, and
which conftantly furnifhes it in all feafons. In the nine furnaces before mentioned, the
metal is melted twice per day, that is every twelve hours; cach melting yields two
hundred and forty pounds of brafs. The whole quantity made in a year fcarcely ex-
ceeds from fix to feven hundred ichippunds ; it might be extended to one thoufand,
The fheets of brafs are five times roafted, and are as often put into the cylinder which
refembles that at Afruftadt. On coming out they are ten ells long by three feet eight
inches in breadth: it undergoes no alteration in its dimenfions. Copper in its trans-
formation into brafs gains nearly twenty-five per cent., the precife quantity depending on
the quality of the calamine. Hungary furnifhes two forts of this article, red and white;
Poland but one, which is a reddifh grey: the Hungarian calamine is confidered to be
the beft; it cofts 1 rix-dollar 43 fchillings per quintal, (three and a half to the {chip-
pund.) The coft of Polifh calamine is 25 rix-dollars per ton of between five and a half
to fix fchippunds, about 1 rix-dollar 12 fchillings per fchippund: the annual confump-
tion of this article is one thoufand two hundred fchippunds of calamine, and three thou-
fand lafts of wood. There is likewife a petty furnace for the running of {mall utenfils,
which are afterwards polifhed. The filings are remitted, but experience a lofs of 50 per
cent. In all from fixty to fixty-two workmen are employed. The whole of this ma-
nufactory was confumed by fire about ten or twelve years ago: the lofs was enormous
to the proprietor, a Mr. Adlervull, to whom the traveller fhould have recommendation.
At prefent he has infured the whole, even the wood and charcoal ; the infurance for
buildings entirely of wood is two per cent. and from one to one and a half for other
buildings, according to the quantity of brick and ftone contained in them.
From Skultuna we proceeded to Wefteros, the diftance a mile and a halt, the roads
full of holes and bad. As a traveller rarely remains more then a few hours at Skul-
tuna, he fhould keep his horfes. ;
Weftcros is a very ancient city which contains nothing worthy of remark. The tomb
of Eric XIV. in the cathedral is abfolutely undeferving notice. The fteeple of this
church, built on a fquare tower, is reckoned the higheft in Sweden, yet is not very
high. At the extremity of a long jetty lined with warehoufes, is the port at which
great quantities of iron are fhipped for Stockholm. ‘The left fide of this jetty isa
marth ; before you arrive hither, you fee the government-houfe, which is a handfome
building. | Welteros is the capital of the province of Weftmania, one of the aiid in
. weden,
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