b o o k <( a n a v e r y b r i e f l y f u g g e f t e d a m e th o d o f a r r a n g in g th em ,
« fo u n d e d o n t h e c la f i i c a l c h a r a c t e r s o f his own f y f t em .
“ It flioujd feem that profeflor Bergman has not introduced
“ into this iketch any articles o f the foffil kingdom, which
it chymiftry has not fufiieiently afcertained; and to his own
« labours many very important difcoveries and alterations
a are owing - yet, from this flight view o f his work, it is
u immediately difcerned, that the completion o f a fyftem
M muft be wanting, till the labour and attention o f chymifts
■“ have found the true place of a great number of fubftances
“ hitherto not fufflciently analyzed. In the mean time, till
“ that perfection is attained, it would be highly delireable to
u fee, from the pen o f l'o ikilful a mailer, the whole mineral
kingdom, as far as is poffible, arranged agreeably to the
* plan here laid down; fince the fagacity and penetrating
« eye o f fo able a chymift would qualify him to aflign, with
« great probability, the true place o f many fubftances
« w h i c h chymical analyiis might not have abfolutely fixed:
«£ and we are glad to announce, that the author intends here-
“ after to publiih this work on an enlarged and more perfeft
0 . plan
* Pau cis interje&is annis., fi D eu s vitam virefque la r g itu r , e t locupleti'us e t adcuratius
$»oc rudimentum pvoditurum fp ero .
c h a p ; i x .
Generaldefcription o f the country.— -Wefteros.— 7^imb c f Eric
XIV.— His imprifonment and death.— Account o f his family.
— Singular adventures of bis eldejl fon Guftavus.— Kungs-
oer.— Arboga.— Örebro.—-Marieftadt.— Lindkiopirig.—
Trolhaetta.— River Gotha.-— Attempts to join the Gulf o f
Bothnia and the German Ocean by an inland navigation
acrofsSweden.— Fruitlefs endeavours to render the catara'Bi
o/Trolhastta navigable.— Defcription o f the works.
n p H E provinces o f Upland, Weftmanland, and N e r i k e , C H A P .
which I traverfed in my way toGotheborg, are efteemed ■ _' .
the richeft and fineft parts o f Sweden.; and indeed I can
hardly figure to myfelf a more variegated or plealing fcenery
than is exhibited by the general face o f the country. Hills
and dales, rocks and vallies, fmall plains, numerous lakes,
forefts, meadows and arable land, frequent towns arid villages,
and' fcaftered fat m-houfes, are blended together with a con-
ftant and delightful variety. Thus Sweden, which fome travellers,
forming their judgement merely from the few dif-
tridls that fell under their immediate obfervation, have de-
fcribed as a mafs-of barren and ungenial foil, is evidently not
deficient in the- molt pifturefque beauties o f rural nature.
But I haften.from general to particular defcription.
March 6. From Upfal a I paffed a trail of country, more
open arid fertile than I had hitherto obferved in Sweden-, to
Endkioping, a fmall town, ikuated upon a river clofe to an
inlet of the lake Mseler, and confifting chiefly o f wooden
houfes