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former are more commonly ufed, fince 

 bricks are made before the town, and are 

 well burnt. The flone which has been 

 employed in the building of other houfes, 

 is a mixture of black or grey glimmer* run- 

 ning in undulated veins, and of a loofe, and 

 quite fmall grained limejlone, which run 

 icattered between the bendings of the other 

 veins, and are of a grey colour, excepting 

 here and there fome iingle grains of fand, 

 of a paler hue. The glimmer makes the 

 greateft part of the flone; but the mixture 

 is fometimes of another kind, as I mall re- 

 late hereafter under the article, eleventh of 

 October. _ This done is now got in great 

 quantities in the country, is eafily cut, and 

 has the good quality of not attracting the 

 moifture in a wet feafon. Very good lime 

 is burnt every where hereabouts, for ma-= 

 fonry. 



The houfes are covered with mingles. 

 The wood for this purpofe is taken from 

 the CupreJJits thyoides, Linn, or a tree which 

 Swedes here call the white juniper-tree, and 

 tbe Engliflj, the white cedar. Swamps and 

 Moraffes formerly were full of them, but 

 at prefent thefe trees are for the greater!: 

 part cut down, and no attempt has as yet 

 been made to plant new ones. The wood 

 is very light, rots lefs than any other ir\ 



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