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from the knowledge of Hans Person, a pea- 

 sant at Webomark, who would have con- 

 ducted him right. The father of this Hans 

 was the first discoverer of the mountain in 

 question, and undertook a journey to Stock- 

 holm with a small barrel of the ore ; but 

 before he set off, his neighbours made him 

 drunk, and took out the proper ore, re- 

 placing it in his barrel with lumps of 

 granite. His son is now at all times ready 

 to show the mountain to any one who in- 

 quires for it, and I had some thoughts of 

 going to find out this man, though his re- 

 sidence was far out of my road. Learning 

 however that he was not now at home, but 

 employed somewhere at a distance in build- 

 ing or repairing a bridge, I thought it use- 

 less to inquire any further. 



At some few places at which I stopped 

 for refreshment in the course of this day^s 

 journey, I procured some of that prepara- 

 tion of milk called Satmiolk, by some people 

 T'dtmiolk. In the neighbourhood grows the 



