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reus, Linn. In feveral places in the vicinity, efpecially in the 
parifb.es of Faldamo and Sotkamo, there is iron-earth, or ochre;. 
The peafants,. without any afiiRance from others, make for 
themfelves as much good iron and Reel as they have occafion for. 
From Sotkamo Mr. Julin * brought, and has in his pofleffion, a 
Rrong blood-Rone ore, with cryRal ; and this alfo is to be found 
at Kemi. On the fea-fhores of Kemi, near Paldamo and Kala- 
joki, you meet with great quantities of black fand impregnated 
with iron. In fome places about Kemi, Sotkamo, Kufamo, and 
Paldamo, you will light upon a fpecies of Rate, the fchijlus arde- 
Jia, Linn, arranged, I believe, by the late mineralogiRs under the 
genus of ardejia tegularis. It is not, however, good for roofing. 
The mpft common fort confifls of fand confolidated by clay, or 
a mixture of clay and quartz. 
Befides the grey and red granite, the mofl common Rone Here, 
you will find a reddifh and clear quartz pebble Rone, flint Rone, 
feltfpar, and rock cryRal, being the nit rum quart zofum aquettm , 
Linn. Black fhorl, (fchoerlum f nigrum) is to be feen in a few 
places near Sotkamo and Reovanjemi; in the neighbourhood of the 
town, below the quickfands, and on the margins of lakes. Clay pre¬ 
vails throughout the whole of the parifhes of Kemi, Paldamo, and 
Sotkamo. You meet with faxum micaceum JiJJile cinereum atomis 
interjiindiis quartzojis micaceifque , Linn, of various colours, but 
snoRly of black-grey; as alfo the talcum ollare , Linn. In Pudef- 
* This gentleman will be again mentioned hereafter. 
t See Retzic’s Mineralogia, genus Schoerluni, 
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