B <30 K until it divides into two ftreams furraunding the ifland of Ting-
— — -' walla, on which Carlftadt is built., Thele two branches, afterwards
unite and fall into the lake Wenner..
The illand is twelve miles, and the town about a mile and a
half in circumference.. It was built by Charles, the.Ninth, and.
called after his name. The ftreets are broad and ftrait. Excepting
the cathedral andfchool, the houfes are built of wood and painted.
It is a bifhop’a fee; the epifcopal palace is likewife of wood, but.
not painted, and has fo extenfive a front,.and io many windows
as to look like a manufa&ory, The town contains about 1,500
inhabitants, who carry on a commerce of iron and wood acrofs
the Wenner, and. import, in return tea, fiugar, and fpjces.
Philipftadt ftands in the midft of a hilly and .rocky country;
abounding in iron mines, between two fmall lakes, on a lively
rivulet. This town was. alfo built by Charles the Ninth, and
called after his fon Philip. In. 1775 it-.was. utterly deftroyed by
fire, and has been fince rebuilt. It contains*»no more than fixty
houfes, which are conftrudted of wood, and a church and hof-
pital built of ftone, plaiftered.
We paffed through Arboga, and continued our journey north
of the river Ulvifon, through a rich and beautiful vale, to Kioping,
a large ftraggling dirty town on a fmalLftream,,.which falls
at a little diftance into the lake Maeler. The veffels afcend this
ftream near the extremity of the town, and convey acrofs the
Maeler to. Stockholm the iron which is produced from the mines
of Wermerland.
I did
I did not omit paying a vifit to Mr. Scheele, fince decea'fed,
who was fettled as an apothecary at Kioping, and whofe chy-
mical difcoveries have rendered his name defervedly celebrated
among the naturalifts of Europe,
Charles William Scheele, the fon of a tradefman, was born at
Stralfund, in December, 1 742. He received-the earlieft rudiments
of education at a private fchool, and afterwards in the
feminary of that town. Having at a very early age expreffed a
ftrong defire to follow the profeflien of an apothecary, he was
bound apprentice to Mr. Bauch, of Gotheborg, with whom he
continued till 1765. There he laid the foundation of his chy-
mical knowledge. He was remarkably quiet and ferious, extremely
attentive to the medical and .chymical preparations, and
ufed afterwards to repeat die procefs in his own apartment.
He leems to have been firft excited to the ftudy of chymiftry,
by the perufal of Neuman’s chymiftry, recommended by Grun-
berg, an apprentice in the fame iliop. He alfo met with Le-
merie and Stahl’s works, and Kenckell’s Laboratory, which feems
to have been his favourite book.
In '1765, he departed from Gotheborg, and ferved different
apothecaries; firft, Karlftroem, of Malmoe; fecondly, Scharen-
berg, of Stockholm; and, -in 1773, obtained an appointment with
Loock of Upfala.
At Upfala he increafed his knowledge by forming an acquaintance
with the learned men o f the univerfity, particularly
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