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FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN. 553
Saturday until Sunday at midnight. Grain is dried here in the fame manner as at
CE£ulterby. This village alfo like that forms a colony of itfelf.
In cafe of {topping but for a few honrs at Loeufta, the traveller will do wall to retain
the horfes he brings with him, to take him to the firfk poft town, feeing there are none
at Loeufta, and that he will otherwife have to wait. From Leeufta to Rethiba three
quarters of a mile; thence to Forfmarck one mile and a quarter ; although the real
diftance be altogether no more than feven quarters, it is yet the cuftom, upon what ac-
count is not known, to exacta quarter of a mile more. On the firft flage the road be-
gins to be very narrow, and you pafs through nothing but forefts. There is accom-
modation for the traveller at the inn at Forfmarck, where he may lodge.
Forfmarck. The manfion-houfe at Forfmarck has a more impofing appearance than
either of the two preceding ;_ it is two ftories high; eleven windows by fix; a hand-
fome court and agreeable gardens, which are the more ftriking from the wildnefs of
the road to Forfmarck, from which nothing is to be feen but rocks and woods. ‘The
iron is not run into pigs here on account of the fearcity of charcoal; the eftablifhment
has two hammers, and forges about three thoufand {chippunds. _‘Vhe ore comes from
Dannemora ; the pig iron from the neighbouring forges and from one in Finland, be-
longing to Mr. Uggla. ‘There is here a very {mall furnace of the fame fhape as thofe
in which the pigs are run; the drofs is founded here which falls from the pigs when
under the hammer; when in train there are eight meltings per week, each yielding
from three to four lifpunds of iron. The Walloon method is followed here, where
there ftill remains a number of Walloons. All trades requifite toa colony are followed
here as well as at the other forges, there is likewife a fchool for children. The work
at the forges finifhes on Saturday at night, and is refumed on Sunday night. ‘They have
here a machine for drying grain fimilar to thofe at Geufterby and Loeufta: the ware-
houfes are handfome and well built. The eftate of Forfmarck was fold by Mr. Jen-
nings to Mr. Uggla twelve years ago, for 100,000 rix dollars, it is now worth up-
wards of 200,000, The mother of Guftavus Adolphus is faid to have dwelt here-
Jobannefors is three-eighths of a mile diftant, where there is a fmall hammer for fteel-
works and one for nails; here alfo axles are made and fprings for carriages. ‘Tire for
_ wheels is made at Forfmarck. To make the fteel they ufe Englith coal which cofts one
rix-dollar the ton. Here it is that the ore which Mr. Uggla fends to Finland to be
melted is embarked on a canal, and the pig iron returned thence is unloaded; it is
very near the fea, which here forms a {mall bay and looks moft like a lake. There are
here faw and corn-mills, over the corn-mills is a fall be/videre, whence the fea is dif-
covered, and where the vifitor infcribes his name in a regifter kept for the purpofe.
From Forfmarck to Norrficdicka is one mile and a quarter (really one and a half,)
near the firft mile poft there is a road to the left which leads to GZuregrund, a fmall
town and fea-port. ‘To Marka is one mile farther, the road fandy, the country well
wooded ; on the left is diflinguifhed the little town of Ofthammer, and fhortly after
by the fide of a church you leave the road to Upfal on the left. Before you arrive at
the poft-houfe you keep for fome fhort diftance along the banks of a lake. ‘Yo Sanda
“one mile and a half, nothing but woods and fand, and rocks. Half a mile from this
place by the fide of the church isa monument erected by Baron Oxenttiern, in memory
of his wife, who died in 1786, it confifts of a fmall tron column furmounted by an
urn with an infcription; beyond is the village compofed of one flreet, with the houfes
built only on one fide; it is fmall but very well built; on the left you diftinguifh the
feat of Baron Oxenftiern, in a charming {cite near the ica; this ellate, called Hargs,
.VOL. VI. 48 has
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