Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - Pages ...
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
552 FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN. : /
to Goo rix-dollars, he has moreover a dwelling, -and like the workmen is furnifhed
with charcoal and grain at half price. Iron is extraéted from the drofs the fame as at
Suderfors, and as ‘well as at Suderfors tl ney here make bricks of it for building. Their
grain is dried by a flue, through which the fumes from the furnace are conducted beneath
fheets imperceptibly bored and inclined the fame as the roof of a houfe; flues for this
purpofe proceed from the two furnaces belonging to the hammer on the fide. There
are two chambers of this defcription, each of which dries twenty tons every twenty-four
hours. ‘They are a contrivance of Mr. Veltrceun, and have been very generally
adopted.
From Géufterby to Brw is half a mile, (it will be neceflary to pre-advife one of the
clerks belonging to the forge of the time at which you wifh to depart, as there are no
horfes at Gufterby.) ‘To Hokanjbo one mile and ahalf. This poit-houle is fome dif-
tance out of the great road, on the right; at a quarter of the diftance of this laft ftage,
there is another road to the right which leads to Forfmarck, a fimilar diftance. To
Loeufta three quarters of a mile; from the inftant of leaving the road to Forimarck
you have nothing but foreft, and will decide which of thefe two forges you will vifit
firft, according to your courfe afterwards being either northward to Gelle, or fouthward
on return to Stockholm, or to regain the high road to Finland.
Leufta. The inn is at the extremity of a long {treet planted with trees; on one fide
are the houfes of the work people and perfons employed, on the other, of the depend-
ants on the caftle, which is of one {tory and pretty enough, but not equally fo, in our
efteem, with that of Giufterby ; as you enter the court on the right hand you find two
fmall apartments; upon the gardens are five apartments in fucceflion, among which are
the faloon and dining-room ; the furniture is of a common defcription ; there are fome
family pitures, and paintings of Italian monuments. A Cleopatra in tapeftry, much ex-
tolled, which had no charms for us, and which is valuable but om account of the perfon
from whom itwas received by the poffeffor. Among the portraits, that of Charles de
Geer is diftinguifhable ; the firft who came from Holland to Sweden in 1652. ‘He
was proprietor of the eftates of Finfpongs, Leufta, Gimo, Eufterby, Godegord, and
Skilberg. On the firft ftory are fome very plain apartments. ‘The gardens are hand-
fome, particularly when confidered they are north of 60° of lat. The library is with-
_ out the caftle ; it does not contain more es feven thoufand volumes, among which
nothing peculiarly valuable, except a folio volume of infects and birds, extremely well
painted in colours. It isa aecripdon of the cabinet prefented by Charles. de Geer,
Marfhal of the Court, to the academy of {clences, where it {till is under the direGtion
of M.Sparrman. A manufcript of memoirs to ferve to give light to the hiftory of the
age in which he lived, written by Charles de Geer, with a number of drawings by
himfelf, alfo a very beautiful work, Round the caftle are feveral pavillions ferving for
{tables for fixty-four horfes, kitchens, and other offices. A volery, two hot houfes —
containing orange-trees, aloes, coffee-trees, &c. A magazin of fowling-pieces, contain-
ing at leait a hundred, with a number of pittols, feveral Runic fticks, and Lapland tfur-
niture. In avery fall apartment is a cabinet of natural hiftory.
The forge is very confiderable, it employs four hammers, each of which capable of
working fifty fchippunds weekly, when in full play; in the whole they turn out from
eight to nine thoufand fchippunds at the moft. The pigs are run in other forges in the
neighbourhood belonging likewife to the Baron de Geer, This is done for the lake of
faving charcoal which is rare at Leeufta. Nothing is made here but bars; their manner
or working, the Walloon. The hammers are at a ftand from eight in the morning of
7 PB Saturday
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
