igo NATURAL HISTORY ^NORWAY. 



Men. 

 In the fourth - ^oo 



Sawyers - - 6 



In the founderies - - - - 40 



In the mint - - - _ j5 



Carpenters - - - - 8 



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 - - - _ _ Il6 

 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 penfions from the 



mine-cheft - - - _ ^oo 



Miners widows, likewife penfioners - - 500 



Officers widows - - - 30 



Officers on penfion - - - 20 



Officers actually in fervice - * co 



Mirers - ----- 40 



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 affirmants, 



A fecretary. 



A fuperintendant. 



A clerk of the mine. 



An officer to fix the boundaries. 



Four jurats. 



Four head-refiners. 



Two purveyors. 



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