N A T U R A L H 190 I S T O R Y of N O R W A T \
Men.
In the fourth ' - . j# -
Sâwyèrs - - ' - l' 60
In thejfounderieS '1 .-■ 4v' v v - ..4°
In the mint - -*■ - . :■ ** j ratac 16
Carpenters •;>'
In the Ipring foreign peafants are taken into work
for Wood and coal; and in winter, - when- day-,
labour ceafes, an hundred men p^eiSiple^^ ih
mining, b^fides~fijcteen men kept jn'conttant pay
for repairing die flat-boats, and the like, -amounting
to - ... (gMKpS I l6
In the fiimmer, the day-lahpur-i commences, in
June,'. and continues till the. clofe 91 November,
when the men employedrajehjtleatt
JDilabled and : fick, receiving penfions from the
’ *. inine-chefr ' ;v.s -■ \
Miners widows, likewife penfioners - * f s 500
Officers widows , - ■ - . r - _ ,
Officers on perifion • • - , - . v, , t • 2q
Officers a&ually in fervice - ■ *.. gq
Fibers j-..;, jjgf ; ’’ ,.4.0
Total 4582
The number of all the inhabitants of the town of Kongfberg,
amounts to betwixt ten and eleven thoufand fouls.
The principal officers are thé following:
Thé góyembr óf thé mine;
The comptroller óf thé mine.
Three, affiftants.
A fécretary.
A fuperintendant.
A clerk of the mine.
An offiéer to fix the boundaries.
Four jurats.
Four head-refiners.
Two purveyors.
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A clerk öf'the huts;
A.matter of the^huts«
An affay-mafter. ",.
A matter of the mint,
An engraver. .
A keeper of the'fawS.
A chief forefter. -
Thrqe undey forefters.
A foreft-olerk.
 phyfician and Turgeon.
g t . v .
The other ' Norway-filver-fcine was difcoveted in the year n* pd&ag
my kfe and begun-by the famffies- of'Hufmann and Cicigrion, and
afterwards, in th e 'year *1734, devolved toôount Wedêl. It lies
nearr-Btagrias, and« for wood, water, and other neceflaries, is very
out fbch folid veins or mattes ôf pure filver as thofe at Kongfberg,
the ore'jhke .that ïöf• the? German-mines, ' having a large mixture of
lead and copper,-which, in'the phrafe of the miners, mutt be
made goad, and fepârated by fufion. ; This1 operation has hitherto
been inëxpreffibly difficult arid laborious, and the pröfccutiön of
the'wôrkffc been greatly obftó&édbyffiS tedious? labour^ and
éxeeffive charges opeafioned by the hardnefs of the- metal, or rather
by the adhefion of the metal, and its intimate conjunétion’with
ffie ttone. Whether this ari&s from a large mixture of arfêriïc and
antimonÿÿ: ôr from what other caufb,' has been - a controverted
point, and I mutt refer the decifion to better judges. . The hand-
ftónes which I have of this, contain, as I have faid, copper, iron,
and lead y infemixed with the filver, yet the filver in fueh aburi-
dance, that when experience fhall havé improved the prefent method
of fufion and feparation,; arid this mirie comes to be wrought
with more fkill and attention, I am of opinion it will prove no
lefs profitable than that o f Kongfberg itfelf. In the mean time
thé*filver and lead found' lkafe^as ifeld- IteT-thc '-ftiyaT g&rit at Korig-
fberg at a fettled rate. AThé nàmes ofIffié^ôiiries hithefto found,
and now wrought at the depth o f forty-five fathoms, are upwards
of twelve in number. In copper-mines this kingdom has likewife
been providentially and-remarkably dittinguifhed, efpecially in the
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