OF THE ORIGIN OF CHEMISTRY. tfp 



grain and honey *, many ages before the birth 

 of Chrill. 



For iheir inftruments of agriculture, as well as 

 for their arms in war, they required both the 

 life of metals and artificers : But they involved 

 all thofc arts in fables and myfterics, fully as 

 much as the nations of the foulh. They be- 

 lieved that the bed fwords were made by cer- 

 tain pigmies, who were concealed in the moun- 

 tains f. It is related alfo of the All, that, in 

 Idavail, (a wood in Vcrmelandia, which derives 

 its na'tie from Edda) tliey had conllrucled fur- 

 naces, and made pinchers, inftrumcnts, and 

 ////</, which fome interpret money]. Krode kinr 

 of Denmark, paying a vifit to the Upfal Kioln, 

 is faid to have obtained two female iluvcs, one of 

 which was /killed in making gold, the other in 

 making fait 5- The in oft ancient temple of Old 

 Upfal is dcfcribcd as being not only very finely 

 ornamented with gold within, but alfo as being 

 adorned with a border of gold without |j. From 

 other accounts likewife, it appears, that the in- 

 habitants of the north were not only acquaint- 

 ed with the ufe of metals, but had made fome 

 progrefs in chemical arts. 



5 vi. S\w ft/if 



* r,ir;ilK., -t-r-rnph. I. iv. 



Ku.l.i l).i::;f. 



I rfnvamal Volufpa. 



^ F.diia UamJf. 



jj A. Crctn. anj A. Cranz.vid. ShcfTcri Uplaila 



