i 9 o. NATURAL HISTORY of NORWAY. 



Men. 

 In the fourth - 9°° 



Sawyers - - 60 



In the founderies - - ' - -40 



In the mint - . - - ~ 16 



Carpenters - - - - 80 



In the fpring foreign peafants are taken into work 

 for wood and coal; and in winter, when day- 

 labour ceafes, an hundred men are employed in 

 mining, befides fixteen men kept in conftant pay 

 for repairing the flat-boats, and the like, amount- 

 ing to - - - - 116 

 In the fummer, the day-labour commences in 

 June, and continues till the clofe of November, 

 when the men employed are at leaft - - 200 

 Difabled and fick, receiving pennons from the 



mine-cheft - - ~ - 300 



Miners widows, likewife peniioners - - 500 



Officers widows - • - - 30 



Officers on penfion ■ - - - 20 



Officers actually in. fervice - - 5°. 



Ifluers - - - - - r» 4° 



Total 4582 



The number of all the inhabitants of the town of Kongfberg, 

 amounts to betwixt ten and eleven thoufand fouls. 

 The principal officers are the following: 

 The governor of the mine. 

 The comptroller of the mine. 

 Three affiflants. 

 A fecretary. 

 A fuperintendant. 

 A clerk of the mine. 

 An officer to fix the boundaries. 

 Four jurats. 

 Four head-refiners. 

 Two purveyors. 



