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toSkeen, and frofii -lhehcc cari-i^ci äbltlad. The parifh of Oddc
in Hardanger, affords as fine and firth fand-ftones as ever I fäw,
hut not in any gfeätquarititieskl have bebn lätfely informed, that
m thi^ptttifh itf Nötdäl in ^lndiiideFj there afelärge mountains
entkdly' iotififting Of yellow fed red fand-ftonea.
Miii-ftoae. ; Mill-ftone, whieh irideed iS but afiother fort öf fand, Gönfiffing
of gfoffefTubftfeces, hut the ie^tfife thereof iS böÄ ifidfe; es^a-
paft and finiöoth; is exported from Guldbrandfdale, Syhdford,
and: other places.
Baiang-flone. Hardfeger likewife'affords the belt Bagfteheller, r.' e. Baking-
ffone, a flat rain ;rfedTtiibbtb ifoney which being'founded,
bread is baked on them, which is BkeWife ddfie bit ifpffi-iplates.
Thefe flat and thin ftones likewife begin to be tifed for covefltlg
houfes and ehurches, as flate is in Othef pläceS. ‘
siate. This in fome parts is found in fiich prodigious plenty,- that not
only the whole ground on which the ciiy vbf Chriftiania ftfeds,
but the adjacent country is little elfe than flate, Colläsa lapis &f-
filis, ^fitting mto laminsej or eonfifiing df h' fodceffibtt Of lä ftv
nous ftratä. But hereabouts the pieces are fo Shall j as'not to be
applicable tb any particular ufe ; nor have coals been found tliider
it either here 'dr elfowhdfe, äs' was fiippofed V from the fimilarity
of the fubftancesj fed the black loom befog"
fomewhat like coal, befidbs the eifeumftance of f its fplitting in
the fame manner as coal.
S E C T. IV.
Veeg^fteen (foft: of Täld-äftötfe')'both fight and bfown, and the
fineft forts of it otherwifo called TalkftefoqGry&lein, fedbyTOrne
Blodgryte and Cloverftein, befog v^y foft and eafy to be cut,
hewn, or fawed, are to be found ahnoff throughout this and all
other provinces of Norway, biit not evefy where in fiich large
pieces as at Stavenger, and the lordfhip of Sunderhord, from
whence feme fhiploads were lately carnal for the palace at Copenhagen
*, and the late famous and ftately cathedral of Dront-
*''I'!he Tafkftem is fomfctimes found in and along with the hardeft pebble-ftone.
Near Malmangeris a deep cavern in a mountain, now almoft exhaufted,. but formerly
full of it. This corroborates what I have before faid, Defolido intra folidum,
arid ihews the probability that all lapidious maffes were formerly foft and inter?
mixed. 1
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N A T-U R A L, :H ï'SfëRjD IR Y Of MJQM 'WA T. M
h e i m ] (J^id.i4i|^bgilt;'of this ftotie, .as I 'haye.herebfohndbfe-«
verat ^fiüffchêS',: andi othejy buildings of th9 ,fame'. Thib ffone does! '
nbt confift', öfifand.* '©afotebrny tpartides,ö buttbf a. fine- (limy corn-,
paft yfpbftance, ^vhich mat1 be .jxu-i^femzed» - when ir,’flrihps#k£
foapjor "tallow, but dn' the :aitu^eeofoè8.vpbrou§, napd.f Infos, it .gldsp
as I havé iobforyed; oh>tÊe”è{iatfidès;| ©fooiM | .nhufofees*: whichp by;
length of rime, looks i^srif they had been bfoknofipumicesftone ;
this ftone however is ■ almdftdmperifoafiley even, irrfire,. 'and on theft
adcoUnt isl bylfofoeiu&d:for Kearthffj Ovens, Jahtbbeatohs?. tltkGül-
bfendfdale, pips?/pfes,?'pbtsiahdlkettles', -'tdfhe.bi^iefs bfuHhlfia
tun are made óf’ié, as; veffds of, tljïs dSfnd -not Only, retain the heat,1
but according to, Bromel, gfo©’ a, better tafte to ,what-1 is boiled'1^*'0^-
therein, than utenfils (of any other fubftapee. „ Of the -dark green “*» e- |£ ^
Talc, which is? ; likhwifo ufed for calling variety 1
I havé feèn-dmages,- and other kmdVof fcülptutèy 'witfffe^finè a
polifh, and in ^eye^-^efpeft as lightly, «is1# bf marble ©r-Terpen-
tiné, fet1 the latter wohld hatë taken up-thriefetthe labour'unci'
time; bfor khë Talètftonej-el^éeïalfy ófoa^góód kind, forked
much’dafief-'than wood itfelf. - Near Stavenger;--i,i fêühd a kind’
örTdlc-ïtone,“ of foch a' whitenefs, thak it- is begun' fo be ufed
there‘for'rpowder, ’a^if may be pulverized; to - an ‘ impalpable fine-
nefs; fed ïum inclined to think it would fuCceed better in'paint-
ing thanfoëriS'e.'' I alfö fecólléft'to hade read, if I miflake' not, in
Tavernier, that the" principal pCrfohs in Armenia, make ufe of a
white fhining Tal^-flolie for jpa£ritfo'g,\and as it were I'aqtieriAg
Ihëir beft apdrtfne’nts, ' fed this Talc feè&bfome bf lhe' kmd in
®eftibn. Of the powder of Talh|ftodë,f 'which is like to the firteft
foap, and Talc-oil, an ointment’ is made for rendering the fkin
clofe and fmöoth. The Mufeum Wolmianum mentions a kind of
Norway Talc, with gold' veins,' vbüt this moft be extVemely
fcaffce,
In the iróh-mines rièar -Rongfbeig ahd Skeétty and fik!ewife iff The magnet,
fömefothér piacésj ffiaFWëfidèfÉl-:
mèigriët, or lbadftone, fed in’felch quaiititiiés,: that fomè tuns ofdt
are ; exported, efpecially tó AéiftëidaniVSi %iy
the nbFthem - IbMftbne,' - the ëpithët fofi^irifctós fofipiim^^WhMe
1 PlfktL _ , X x • ' might