TRAVELLING, &c. 17 



Whoever defires to contemplate the flupen- 

 dous metamorphofes of fca, and land, will 

 Icarcely find any where a more convenient op- 

 portunity, than in the fouth, and eaft parts of 

 Gothland •, where the rock-giants, as they are 

 called, feem to threaten heaven, and where 

 the epocha's of time, the ages, the years, if 

 i may fo fay, are as it were carved out in a 

 furprifing feries upon the fea-lhore, and the 

 ground above the Ihore. 



The philofopher will find room to exercife 

 his ingenuity fufficiently in the Oeland-flone, 

 by tr)^ing to difcover how to overcome its moid 

 nature, and quality, which whoever could ac- 

 complifh would do no fmall fervice to his 

 countrey, and above all would infinitely oblige 

 the inhabitants of that place. 



I (hall fay no more than what is known, and 



confeifed by all the world, when i fay that 



the;e is no countrey in the habitable part of 



the globe, where the mineralogifi may make 



greater progrefs in his art, than in this our 



countrey. Let any one, that can, tell me, in 



what regions, more rich, and ample mines of 



metal are found, than in Sweden, and where 



they dig deeper into the bowels of the earth 



than here. 



C Lee 



