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Fahlun.

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We made our way at length out of the forest,
and saw a town before us enveloped in thick
smoke, having a similar appearance to most of
the English manufacturing towns, save that the
smoke was greenish – it was the town Fahlun.

The road now went downwards between
large banks, formed by the dross deposited here
from the smelting furnaces, and which looks
like burnt-out hardened lava. No sprout or
shrub was to be seen, not a blade of grass
peeped forth by the way-side, not a bird flew
past, but a strong sulphurous smell, as from


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