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the whole district the name of "Stora Kopparberget,"
(the great copper mountain). According
to the legend, its riches were discovered by
two goats which were fighting – they struck the
ground with their horns and some copper ore
adhered to them.
From the solitary red-ochre street we wandered
over the great heaps of burnt-out dross
and fragments of stone, accumulated to whole
ramparts and hills. The fire shone from the
smelting furnaces with green, yellow and red
tongues of flame under a blue-green smoke;
half-naked, black-smeared fellows threw out
large glowing masses of fire, so that the sparks
flew around and about: – one was reminded of
Schiller’s "Fridolin."
The thick sulphureous smoke poured forth
from the heaps of cleansed ore, under which the
fire was in full activity, and the wind drove it
across the road which we must pass. In
smoke, and impregnated with smoke, stood
building after building: three buildings had
been strangely thrown, as it were, by one
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