CHAPTER XIÏ.
Description of the Town—Account of the Copper Mine—-Manufacture of Copperas
Sulphur Work—Rocks on the Plain—Surrounding Rocks—Rock in
which the Mine is situated—History of the Mine—Method of Smelting—Assessor
I. G. Gahn—Mr. Jarta—Cabinet of Minerals—Minerals of Fahlun—Garnets
Octahedral Iron Ore—Automalite—Fahlunite—Pyrophysalite—Gadolinite
—T®—Sahlite—New Mine ral....................................................
CHAPTER XIII.
Westmanlancl all Primitive—Lakes diminishing in Size—Account of Sala Structure
of the Country—Mine of Sala in Limestone—Veins that cut the Limestone
—Silver extracted—Lead obtained—Number of Miners—Minerals found in Sala
Mine—Calcareous Spar—Gypsum—Bitter Spar—Sulphate of Barytes Mica__
Serpentine—Chlorite—Salite— Homstone—Hornblende— Galena—Amalgam
of Silver—Native Antimony—Blende—Mine of Ridderhyttan—Mine of Bast-
uäs—New Kopperberg .................................................... ..
CHAPTER XIV.
Hire a third Servant—Procure Passports—Mob of British Sailors Detained
at Fittje—Geognostic Constitution of Sodermanland—Stages to Nykoping__
Carriage breaks down—Lilia Oby—Olof Essen—Vein of Granite—Rivers little
attended to in Sweden—Nykoping—Account of Tuhaberg—Of Utii—Of
Hand vid . . . . . . ................................. . . . .
CHAPTER XV.
Account o f Norkbpmg—Valley of Motala—Granite Veins—Linkopmg—Slowness
of travelling—Lake Vetter—Beauty of the Country—Ancient Castle—Waters
of Medvi—Geognostic Constitution of East Gothland—Floetz Track—Porphyry
at Grenna—Mineralogy of East Gothland .......... .............................. ............ , , , ,
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CHAPTER XVI.
Account of Ibnkdping—Journey to Taberg—Description of that Hill Seems to
belong to the Floetz Rocks—Account of this Hill by Ascanius—Bergman—
Tilas—Napioni—Hisinger—Haussman »..
CHAPTER XVII.
Stages to Helsingburg—Appearance of Smblând—River Laga—Extensive Heath
Beech Trees—Adelfors—Account of Helsingburg—The Sound—Zealand—
Account of die Coal Mines at Hoganas—Geognostic Constitution of Sconia—
Chalk found in it—Oland—Gottland— Stages from Helsingburg to Gottenburg
— Nature of the Country—Embark in the Packet for E n g la n d .............. . . . . . . .
CHAPTER XVIII.
Account of Lapland—Boundaries—Climate—Woody Lapland—Subwoody.
Lapland—Subalpine Lapland—Alpine Lapland—Height of the Mountains—
Temperature of inland Lapland; of maritime Lapland—Temperature of the
Earth—Vegetation—Table of the Plants that grow at different Heights—Effect
of Snow on Vegetation—Plants of the western Coast analogous to those in Iceland
and Scotland—Those on the east Side to those in Siberia—Number of
Species of Plants found in Lapland—Minerals of Lapland ...............................
CHAPTER XIX.
Number of Inhabitants—Conversion to Christianity—Huts and Tents—Food—
Dress—Customs—-Swiftness of Foot—Music—Thread— Diseases—Cures—
Power of die Clergy—Treatment of Strangers—Marriages—Callendar—Stock
of Rein-deer—Account of the Rein-deer—Dyes—Method of cementing Stoneware—
Method of Tanning—Description of the Sledge—Method of catching
Ptarmagans—-Linnæus> dismal Journey in Lycksele Lapland ..........
CHAPTER XX.
Norrland—Jamdand—Dahlsland—Structure—Mines and Minerals—Veranelaiid
—Structure—Philipstad—Mines in its Neighbourhood—Minerals found in
them—Other Mines in the Province « ....................................................
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