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FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN, 549
Sweden, poffefiing meadows, arable lands, and mines of all defcriptions. Its pofition
with refpect to lake Mceler affords great facility to the tranfport of its productions, prin-
cipally iron, of which it exports a confiderable quantity. ‘Two famous diets have been
held at Welteros, the one in 1527, the other:in 15443 the firft deprived the ss) of
its poffefions, and the fecond fecured the throne, before elective, to the defcendants of
Guftavus Vafa.
Krom Wefteros to Upfal by Niqwarn, Enkeuping, (a town,) Liftena, and Sefva, is
altogether feven miles and one eighth: after the firit {tage you crofs the Serva or Sa-
an, the fame river as flows by Sahla over a bridge, which pafled, you are in Upland.
This i isa fine road; the bridge which feparates the two provinces is built fharp of afcent,
on account of being liable to be covered by the water at the melting of the winter’s fnow.
Enkoeuping -is a city, which elfewhere would be looked upon only as a confiderable
village; its fituation is advantageous at the bottom of a creek of lake Mceler.
Cuap. XXIL—Route from Upfal to Abo, by Dannemora, Quftérby, Lefta, Ferfmarck,
Griflsham, and the ifle of Aland.
AS we have already fpoken of the city of Upfal, we fhall proceed direétly to the
defcription of thofe objects which we noticed on our paflage to Abo in Finland ; this
trip is very interefting on account of its affording a fight of the richeft mine and the
moft capital forges in Sweden.
From Upfal to Hu/by one mile and a half ; thence to Anderby is two and a quarter;
the road never bad, but frequently extremely narrow. Half a mile from Hufby we
came to Natholma, an excellent forge belonging to Count Brahé; and a little beyond
this to his feat, which has a handfome appearance *. In the two laft ftages we pafled
over feveral plains. From Ander{by to Dannemora is three quarters of a mile, thence
to Giufterby the fame diftance, although there is a nearer road. ‘The road to Gulterby
turns to the right, that to the mine to the left, you pafs under the machinery of the
pumps, which is fo low as to enforce your attention in cafe your carriage be any ways
elevated.
Dannemora. This is the mine which may juftly be called the Peru of Sweden: it pro-
duces the beft iron, and of that at leaft a tenth part of the production of the whole king-
dom; it is fituated in the hamlet of Geufterby. It is far from curious in itfelf as a
mine, fince it has no galleries, no vaults, nor interior works; but merely a quarry open
at the top. We fpeak of the great hole into which the curious are wont to defcend,
and which alone yields twenty thoufand fchippunds, thus divided: two fifths to Leefta,
two fifths to Glulterby, and one fifth to Gimo. It is the beft iron of this mine, wholly
monopolized by the Englifh, of which they make their fteel ; it cofts nearly a rix-dollar
more than other iron. M. de Vergennes, during his embafly to Sweden, contrived to
fend fome of it to France for fteel manufatures, but the importation was not con-
tinued. From the firft works to the laft, there is a diftance of a thoufand ells in one
‘direction. Seventy-three openings have been made, but great part of them are clofed,
either on account of their not yielding ore, or the works being overflowed.
This mine was worked for the firft time in the thirteenth century; but the moft
authentic monuments refpecting it, are of the date of the fifteenth ; its greatelt
* He has.another feat between Upfal and Stockholm, where are many manufcripts, particularly in the
Polifh language.
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