BENEFIT OF 
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Let the mines of Norburg, the ridge of Ta- 
burga, the pits of Dannemore, Bitfberg, Gren- 
gia, and laltly the immenfe treafures of Sal- 
bergen, and Fahluna be my witnefs, which ex- 
ceed all in the known world. 
Where do the poffefiors fuller forreigners 
more freely to approach their furnaces, and 
obferve their operations ? where are there men 
more ready to communicate their knowledge? 
Strangers are received by us with civility, and 
even p re fled to Hay* 
Who would not ihudder on beholding thofe 
forges, vomiting forth immenfe clouds of fire 
and fmoak, where our iron ores are melted ? 
who would not behold with pleafure the Ample 
eountreyman in the thick pine-groves of Da- 
lecarlia, without furnace, without any appa- 
ratus, extrading an iron fo very fa fit for ufe, 
that it yields to no other, tho* prepared with 
the fierceft fires, and greateft expence ? 
Who ten years ago would have imagined, 
that the lapis calaminariswds to be had in Dale- 
carlia ? or mines of the very bell kind of gold 
in Smolandia ? 
You will perhaps fcarce believe me when i 
tell you, that there are whole mountains full of 
petroleum in Dalecarlia. Yet doubt not. This 
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