U i l
fëtóë^MëMi^foMë
re fin in g; ï ï ^ ^ ^ p l ^ f c i i g ^ F l l P ^ tHe: km g ’s |§j|i> 3® 8iiPttiÉ?
fëtójSeitëé-v?fe .^éö1 we?&ih!^b^>dfite
f ib ë ö i t^ ' tfè .tpSsb* aSSH; werit;wwtf; tte'-llföiMs£^Mniifer
óf dfffefërtce •' : thhTcömérif -the1
gaffe,' the hiéthód'' and iti'më of working Were Entirely i'hë fame*
as to the latter,' it Was'.lhreé hours before; nbörij •aMtthrecvhbiirs
after, but irf fïnirtlër' föttr. Tn 'dFhiiith,
dancing to a l we of 'I hM the
pleafiire cfe^ '^ e la^ br xafe3^ fflëSf
rebels. but the^fyidiwe^eir
daily pay óf five Danifli {hillings as in fummer .when at •work;*’
The.impóttaiieu j fh h h b é | j^ ^ ^ k ;i ii^ ‘ïH^i&ö4ëJ£n^feiJ.èé
• cöïieëiëed hófff hëftcé,' that Befidès1 the ittaify'hnUiönf;' whiëfi (för
thëfè'hundred years paft h^fe' accftiéd- fionf tthfcmtth priëaftcber-^
fens, the tenths alphe being-ah 'ahnüal leyënuèS'tö tte'éfovra1 of
t h i r t y or forty thoufand rixddüars-, -and on ^ ë ^Taft Swechfh: ihVa-
fiqn, a' draught;öf five tho^tóft btM?df
the Workmen in théfè minés. “7 .
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Fandai Laft year a ceppér^Work W&s opened-at Fandal Ja GuftfariStale
copper-work, Dpfrcficld, and which the jtibpriëteis haWé a profpeét of
turning to very good account, but asT have no |WrÉchfe’fnför-
mation of it, I fhall pafs it over with faying,- that the "name of
the main groove is Frederick- gift. fU
S E e ; T ,;/ x i4 ,.
The copper- The copper-mine of Aardale, in thevdjftri<ft Of iSundfiord,- in
A^aief the diocefe of Bergen, being difcovered at the beginning of this
century, has been wrought firft by private perfons, and afterwards
chi the king s account, the ore being efteemed very ifmfe and-good,
and not without feme mixture of goldi which induced king Frederic
the fourth, tó purchafë the mine for thirty thoufand rixdol-
lars; but afterwards,“ by 'the variation of the ore and other accidents,
it has been for a long time fufpended; however, pürfuattt
to a pfopófkl laid before the revenue-chamber, it is foon to be let
oft foot again!
i - About
■ A T U R A L H I S T O R Y of AfO RTVAY.
thirty. yem ggOr a ;fggi§|y jundeytppk; dif working q£ ?a On the mand
.cppjier-mine (found op the ifland. df Shaoleh^ not far from the
teller Fofen, now eahed, Chriftianfaitdj but difienfions, and other
<^ufes..flave put a flop, to it. y
I >; On, the other hand, ia-,- the< lyeafe aifoeiety undertook ff oeiat
copper-mine-at Qe.dalj nine Nonvay-miks; from Chxiftiania, which
,|u]pis Out tp their ;great'jilv^it^gfeji-, .every Iqjiintaidf$orb; yielding^
ijefides fome fibrer, fixty or feventy pound of copper.
S E c 'l J T x n ..- .
-.offronji which; Kfeyjuftlylcallh ©ptimuin Wte peflimurnque ite- of iron m
ftrustnentUEn, abounds ;all over Norway, hut chiefly in the‘dic»fefesenelal
f^Ohr^a©fMd» where theipicitus yegetatavuk, &em»to haw iih*
pfegn&ted *■> sail kinds .ofleauth; according!: tp the fi'eqkentsKb&r-i-
Vftfons hiade*fr0iJt.®hyraical a n a ly f e o f w a te fj ftqtify a n d mnOrifti
earth. =Br, Nichols, in aletter of hisjj fays,:that,'among all.tHh pwiofopixicu
feveral fubftances of which our earth vli xxxT.’-
generally found than iron, this metai Heing: refidmt :not oii^rN'-0:!'
in ail kind of f ftones, • but alfo in loam, 'tinif hfe proves Jby the
Clours of loam, and thfe'fron Uiarcafite, hy the facility of vitrifying,
loath, and by the fimilitude between^ vitrified loam, and - the *
hon Jamel^ily ihe dark red colour,, which Ipam acquires by calcination,
and. laftly,; .by this, that when burnt with.a mixtube e f
- ^ e m i n g the vegetation pf all pietolj by »ipgan^ of a, YitmUqXmit, .whi#,
a%jrding to the CieattMhfi^mote,\emtotf tir fetfiA
to ^ s utnjoft.extretaities, add partiq^ar^^gjoffmdke:'a99iajt»toffor''^s
great,deal Ws beien.wiatten v ^ ' ,
getatiorij1 though, by what I can fee,-:eiperience is lioton their fide; no miner' tffying,
that he Wy eyerrpbferyed any appearance qf new metal to have grown in minefe-jf«^
being.exhaufted an hundred yj^ars.or mpre: But a mOredeciiiVf confumpoii of^it is
«diat Lhave mentioned concferiia^ the Ore-drift*, the ct^ier-iAie« -at RoMasJ iA the
a^at.thevpjtiop, pr ^t-|h5-(}^l<ige. .'^Wey4if?' ^
nitthef rSedtion fo'r thole Wio'may be oTanother opmumfl Jhall here add,^v^ttte
very eminent Count Marfilli writes on this fubjeft, the rather, 3M grip« dTif,
tejag» it - &!&¥*]
B Metal'li |pji& dferrifex primo. iflb, juxta noftrain h ^ tM i rM J S ^ ^ I ^ ^ M i l
oriha^ metallis coamum pfincipio, feu Ipiritu metallieo deducendo videtur, ftib VAfib
tamen relpechi. feu gradu maturitatisj juxta m .^ r^ mjnojje®ve roatH<-,lPP<3<<^cco"'
mm ibFbccurrentium aptitutfeiem; m d S B lfe tV S t itib u s ,
-1 jtfeefer^Uimu^^rTum-thobis-jpfl:. Ppoffe; -prpbabliter :%Ufi,.rcommunem
quentjam nalitum metaliictim fettTpiritum ex-penitioribuVterrEe-fyeiuti .femen i]?i lege
conditoris reconditum) ad fupeificiem ofifuelevari? tk?^t
dete, quam ipfq.s planities, verUm tamen congruajn i|fius‘fixatiohem potius in mon-
Wir;fih*i*'MJS0Dy peeuH«» .ftmaurae lapidec dq&clMifflhisififfi’amiiri-.^ conairfen-
,tium ad difFefentiam IkuSturs aa.pprofitatis terrse components,planities.
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