TRAVELLING, &c. 17 
Whoever defires to contemplate the flupen- 
dous metamorphofes of fea, and land, will 
fcarcely find any where a more convenient op- 
portunity, than in the fbuth, and eaft parts of 
Gothland ; where the rock-giants* as they are 
called, feem to threaten heaven, and where 
the epocha’s of time, the ages, the years, if 
i may fo fay, are as it were carved out in a 
furprifing feries upon the fea-fhore, and the 
ground above the fhore. 
The philofopher will find room to exercife 
his ingenuity fufhciently in the Qeland-flone* 
by trying to difcover how to overcome its moift 
nature, and quality,' which whoever could uc- 
complifh would do no fmall fervice to his 
countrey, and above all would infinitely oblige 
the inhabitants of that place. 
I lhall fay no more than what is known, and 
eonfeiled by all the world, when i fay that 
there is no countrey in the habitable part of 
the globe, where the mineralogifl may make 
greater progrefs in his art, than in this our 
countrey. Let any one* that can, tell me, in 
what regions, more rich, and ample mines of 
metal are found, than in Sweden, and where 
they dig deeper into the bowels of the earth 
than here. 
