74 KALM'S ENGLAND. 



" Therefore, o Mortalls, all bethinke 

 " You, whereunto you must ; 

 " Since now Such Stately Buildings 

 " Lye Buried in the Dust. 



"Thomas Hughes, 1663." 



Several people had written their names on the stone 

 here and there, by which they had made the inscription 

 sufficiently indistinct. 



Vitriols-verket och. Kokningen. The manufacture 

 and boiling of Vitriol. 



At the Establishment of Herr Seel, a Swede, we saw 

 his FYinoZ-Manufacture, and the whole process of boiling, 

 which is shortly this. The Material of which this Vitriol 

 is made is a pale iron-pyrites, Svafvel-kes, of different 

 shapes. This iron-pyrites is taken, or found, somewhat 

 more than 100 miles from London, near Harwich, where 

 it is found on the sea bottom, p& SJO-botten,* and is 



* It happens that Urban Hjarae at p. 340 of a work entitled " Den Be- 

 svarade och Fbrklarade Anledningens Andra Flock. Om Jorden och Land- 

 skap i Gemeen." Stockholm, 1706, in a section " Om Jordens Floo," About 

 Ike Strata of the Earth, has the following : " There is also a noteworthy de- 

 scription of the Stratum, floo, in the cliff, backon, near Harwich in 

 " England, which has been described in detail by M. S. Buschenfelt. When 

 " the sea is at the ebb or low water, this bank, baoka, is in all 70 feet high 

 " from the water-line up to the edge of the cliff at the summit, consisting — • 



Ft. ins 

 " First, on the top. of ordinary soil . . . . .06 



•• Next to that follows a reddish kind of earth ... — 



•' Next to that some horizontal beds of broken bivalve shells, 



" forkrodsade musslor, sand, and whole bivalve and 



" univalve shells, maaalor och sneokor, sand mixed 



"with pebbles and flint-stones, Klapur, sand, och, 



" flint-steen, under one another — 



"Again coarse sand containing bivalve-shells, Musael- 



" grus, and sandbeds, sandhvarf, intermixed as a 



" streaky mass — in all 10 o 



