Biographical Notice of Baron Hermelin. ; 327 
naces and forges. Three of these manufactories he established 
in Bothnia. He opened new roads, and perfected the means of 
conveyance by water ; founded colonies, and introduced an agri- 
culture unknown till then. But these interprises, which were 
not seconded, and which were crossed, in various ways, by acci- 
dental circumstances, exhausted, at length, M. Hermlin’s re- 
sources. He was obliged to give up all his effects to his credi- 
tors ; and he found, like many others, that, in the most useful 
and best calculated enterprises, the profits are reserved for others 
than those who have first tried them. 
He had not, however, to complain of the ingratitude of all his 
fellow citizens. The College of Nobles, at the diet of 1800, 
caused a medal to be struck in his honour, with this inscription 
in Swedish : — “ Presented to Hermelin, by his fellow citizens 
and friends, for having made his country better known, and for 
having enriched and peopled deserts.” 
The Stockholm Academy of Sciences admitted him as a mem- 
ber in 1771 ; and he often, by his liberality, seconded the scien- 
tific researches of this Society, and the journeys which it caused 
to be undertaken. 
When he gave up, in 1 815, the administration of the mines, 
after fifty-four years of service, not only were his appointments 
preserved to him, but the states of the kingdom added a pension 
of a thousand rix dollars,— a recompence well merited, adds the 
historian of the Academy, but moderate, if we consider the sa- 
crifices of every kind which this excellent citizen had made for 
the common good. 
Supporting his misfortune with a philosophic courage, he en- 
joyed, in retirement, the remembrance of all the good he had 
done, when death put an end to his useful and glorious career, 
on the 4th May 1820. 
Baron Hermelins eloge, of which the preceding is an abridg- 
ment, ends with an- enumeration of the w r orks which he com- 
posed, to the number of thirteen, including his academical me- 
moirs, and works which would not have been published without 
his generous assistance. 
We shall confine ourselves to the notice of the following 
works of Hermelin himself, which have been printed separately. 
