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among the craters in Solfatara, filled the air.
The copper roof of the church shone with
corrosive green.
Long straight streets now appeared in view.
It was as deathly still here as if sickness and
discase had lain within these dark wooden
houses, and frightened the inhabitants from
coming abroad; yet sickness and discase come
but to few here, for when the plague raged in
Sweden, the rich and powerful of the land
hastened to Fahlun, whose sulphureous air was
the most healthy. An ochre-yellow water runs
through the brook, between the houses; the
smoke from the mines and smelting furnaces
has imparted its tinge to them; it has even
penetrated into the church, whose slender pillars
are dark from the fumes of the copper. There
chanced to come on a thunder-storm when we
arrived, but its roaring and the lightning’s
flashes harmonized well with this town, which
appears as if it were built on the edge of a
crater.
We went to see the copper mine which gives
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