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Tuneld (a fuperb work of Swedith Geo- 
graphy, of which there have been many 
editions) under the name of Fizmarken, 
they fpeak a dialect which approaches to 
that of the Finns and the Laplanders. 
The Dalecarlians are well-known in the 
Hiltory of Sweden for their attachment to 
GultavusI. and forthe bravery with which 
they delivered the country from the yoke 
of the Danes ; we find in them ftill, to 
this day, the fame devetednefs to their 
King, of which they gave proofs in the 
lait war with the Ruffians. It 1s worthy 
of remark, that, although the greateft 
number of them are obliged to go and 
feek their bread out of their mountainous 
and barren country, and although moft of 
them live fcattered throughout the king- 
dom, the greateft part of the year, they 
have {till preferved their language and their 
maoners, The fterility of their foil, the 
population of which is more confiderable 
than in many other provinces of Sweden, 
forces them, as foon as the harvett is finifh- 
ed, and the feafon of fowing is paft, to 
repair to the towns or country places of 
other provinces, to get employment and 
bread: they fometimes make a journey 
of 140 leagues in going to work, in the 
winter, as far as the forges of Lapland. 
At the time of their emigration, we meet 
them in large bands, men and women, 
loaded with their fmall baggage, amufing 
the wearifomenefs of their journey by di- 
verting (ports, juft as if they were going 
to celebrate a wedding. Their good hu- 
mour never forfakes them ; they have al- 
ways a jeft for laughter, and by this they 
are diftinguifhed from the other Swedes, 
who are more ferious. The Dalecarlians 
are alfo employed out of the country in 
all forts of labours, and are very ufeful to 
the inhabitants, and fo much the more fo, 
as their fivelity 1s proof againit every trial 
—a valuable quality, which their fevere 
economy guarantees, as weli as their habi- 
tual familiarity with privations. 
M. Schmith, when enlarging on the 
milery of the Swedifh peafaniry, has oc- 
cafion to make mention of a kind of bread, 
called kaackebrod, generaily in ule in Swe- 
den, except in the fouthern provinces ; it 
isa fort of cake, in form of an omelet, 
about as broad as the bottom of a plate, 
a quarter of an inch thick, pierced in the 
centre with a hole Ak which they 
fulpend it toa ftick; and chus it is pre- 
ferved fix months, and for entire years. It 
grows fo hard, that you cannot break it, 
without fhappingit againft your knee; and 
I have often remarked, with what difficul- 
ty the pealants themielves chewed. and 
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ground it with their teeth. In the towns, 
this bread is*fometimes not fo thick, and 
confequently is fofier: they mix annifeed 
in it at times, which renders it agreeable 
enough, fo that foreigners prefer it to the 
ordinary bread. The Dalecarlians make 
their bread principally with peafe ; they 
make round and very flat cakes of it, 
which they fprinkle with meal, or in which 
they dilute barley-meal or oat-meal, and 
but feldom rye, in order that it may pre- 
ferve its confiftency. 
Our ‘traveller had not time to vifit the- 
quarries of porphyry of Elfdal; but, being 
at the diftance of only fifteen leagues from 
it, he takes occafion to teftify his regret 
for it, and {peaks of it thus :—‘* The fa- 
mous porphyry of Elfdal is black, grey, 
red, or brown, veined with white, red, or 
green fpots; it is very hard, and fufcep- 
tible of the fineft polifh. In the year 1788, 
a company of fhare-holders caufed vafes, 
table-leaves, mortars, boxes, falt-cellars, 
heads of canes, &c. tobe made of it. In17925 
they fold fome for fome thoufand crowns 
of France. The depot of thefe merchan- 
dizesis at Stockholm. ‘ I was fo much 
the more curious to fee the machines em- 
ployed at Elfdal (continues the author) as 
I had already {een and admired, among the 
models at Stockholm, a machine, invented 
by the ingenious mechanift, M. Hage- 
ftrom, to faw and polifh porphyry, and 
which in my opinion is a real malter-piece.”* 
eee > 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
AVING obferved in the Ninety-fifth 
number of your valuable Mifcellany, 
fome notice taken of the Patent fome time 
ago obtained by me for an 4ir-pump Va- 
pour-bath, I think it neceflary to obferve, 
that the manner in which the feam is ad- 
mitted into the bath is, I flatter myéfelf, 
very particularly defcribed in the {pecifi- 
cation. The manner of exhauiting the 
air, after the turning of the ttop-cock, to 
cut off the communication between: the 
boiler and the bath, has been defcribed 
alfo ; however, if the defcription does not 
feem clear enough, I am forry for it, as 
there is nothing I with more to avoid than 
all myftery ref{pe¢ting the apparatus. 
With regard to the fuccetsful employ- 
ment of it in gout, rheumatifm, pally, 
dropfy, fcrophula, &c. my molt fanguine 
expefations have been exceeded ; but not 
being a medical man, I think it unnecefs 
fary to trouble you with any further par- 
ticulars, as my good friend Mr. Bleg- 
borough, of London, intends very fhortly 
to 
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