mountain of 

 Svuku. 



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gure in an oppofite direclion, compreffed together like rays. In 

 the fiflures are fome fmall fparks of metal. The fourth piece 

 has coalefced into the roundifhnefs of a cake, and is compofed of 

 many circles, gradually contracting themfelves, and proceeding* 

 one from the other to the center, fo that the laft motion of the 

 matter of this {tone mufr. have been circular; this (tone is dark 

 grey. 



The different fhapes of thefe lapidious fuhftances, by cafual al- 

 terations, remind me of a particular in Ofterdale in the mountain 

 of Svuku, on the borders of Sweden, which never fails to excite Remar kabie 

 the admiration of the curious,, and it may juftly be looked upon SeV/tL 

 as one of the moil lingular monuments of the deluge. Mr. Dan- 

 tilas gives a good account of it in a memoir which he read in the 

 year 1742, before the royal academy of fciences in Sweden, and 

 has fince been publifhed, of which the following is an extract, 

 " The higheft creft of the mountain of Svuku in Oefterdalen, a 

 province of Norway, lies, according to a furvey taken by the ba- 

 rometer, above two thoufand ells higher than the lake of Famund, 

 a water betwixt the mountains. This mount confifts of one folid, 

 hard fand-ftone; on the top of the mountain ftands a folid huge 

 mafs of the fame ftone, which bears in it many marks of a diflb- 

 lution and difruption, which can be attributed to nothing but 

 water. For at the foot of this mafs, yet on the fummit of the 

 mountain towards the fouth, are feveral parallel channels, three 

 or four fingers deep, and of the like breadth, which at laft meet j 

 they appear to be the work of fome miner, but upon viewino- 

 them on the fummit, the moft manifeft indications fhew them- 

 felves, as if the water had cut itfelf a paflage along fome heaps of 

 clay, fo that unqueftionably the true caule of this fingularity is to 

 be fought in the impetus and agitation of the waters. 



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