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tain, oppofite to the valley. By what has been fald, 
it is to be underftood, that the iron ore does not lie 
in regular ftrata, as in other places ; neither is the ore 
every-where of equal goodnefs. There are many 
perpendicular as alfo horizontal fiflures all over the 
mountain, which are filled with the fame fand, re- 
duced to a kind of fine mud-like paile; and in 
no part whatever is it impregnated with the leafl 
particle of the iron ore of the mountain, but is of 
the fame purity and nature, as it is found on the fea- 
beaches, from whence often, by its lightnefs, it is 
carried by the winds, and covers and deftroys whole 
tradts of land, as it happens in Scania, Seeland, and 
Holland. In the interior fiffures of the mountain, 
bones of animals, as of flags and other kinds, are 
frequently found imbedded in the fand. -No ore is 
found beyond the foot of the mountain, nor on the 
neighbouring plain ; fo that it appears, as if the moun- 
tain had been artificially laid on the fand, for it has 
no roots, or, like other mountains, its fubflance does 
not penetrate the ground. The ore breaks eafily, 
and what is broke from the fides of the mountain 
readily falls to the foot of it j while in other mines 
the ore, with great trouble and cofls, is dug from the 
bowels of the earth. The only inconveniency which 
happens here is, that the fand, which is lodged in 
very quantities in the fiffures, when the ore is blown 
up, falls with it to the foot of the mountain, and 
buries or covers it, which they are forced dig away 
again : on which account they always blow up the 
ore from the bottom of the mountain upwards, for 
the greater eafe of the miners, and to hinder the 
heaping of the fand at the bottom. They then carry 
the 
