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able to the emesel fafhion of the country, 
except fome few of late erection. Indeed, 
none of them are very ancient, as the 
whole town was burnt down about five 
years ago; it now confifts of about 330 
houfes.. The Trava runs through the 
town, and partly round it, and turns feve- 
ral mills, one of which we were oblerv- 
ing, when the perfon of whom we had en- 
quired our way to the inn, accofied us very 
civilly, and demanded our paffports. On 
my faying that we had none, not conceiv- 
ing them to be neceflary, as I had more 
than once been at Lubec without any, he 
requefted us to walk with him fo the bur- 
gomafter. We were introduced into a 
{mall but elegant white houle, very hand- 
fomely furnifhed in the modern tafte, aad 
on entering a fort of office well furnifhed 
with books, Mr. Decker foon made his 
appearance. I addrefled him in French, 
tuforming him that I was refident oe 
burg, and my companion an Englifhman 
newly arrived, that we were pedeftrians 
from choice, and that our object in vifit- 
ing nis diftriét was only the gratification 
of our curiofity. _My companion offered 
him a letter of introdu€tion to read, ad- 
dreffed to a houfe at Lubec, which he re- 
turned, faying he was already perfectly fa- 
tisfied, and apologifed for the trouble he 
had given us, to which, he faid, he was 
obliged by the duties of his office ; and 
then, having conducted usto the door, he 
wifhe{ us a pleafant journey. 
We now made for the falt-werks, con- 
trafting, as we walked along, the un- 
bought civilities of 
magittrate with the low-bred infolence and 
rapacity an Englifiman muft encounter tf 
he wants a palsp ort, from the Jacks-in- 
office in his own country. The {sl:-works 
at Oldeifloh appear, in a country where 
manufactures on an extenfive f{cale are ex- 
tremely rare, to be a very grand under- 
taking. The founder, however, though 
he may deferve praife for his enterprize 
and public {pirit, can have very liit!e cre- 
dit given him for prudence and forefight. 
The rival falt-works at Lunenburg are 
furniflied from the pits with brine of fuch 
a ftrength as renders eviporating-towles 
unneceflary, and confequently work with 
atwentieth part of the machinery: the 
advantage of fucl alfo appears to be on 
their fide. After a competition of a few 
years, the founder became a bankrupt, 
and tne works paffed into the hands of a 
Danith Count, who foon followed the fate 
of his predeceffor, and was fucceeded by a 
Prince Bifhop of Munfter. His Reverend 
Highnefs was not long in difcoyering, 
MonTury Maa, No. 105. 
this gentlemanlike 
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from the ftate of his coffers, that the ma- 
nufacture of falt was not quite fo profit- 
able as his other concerns ; and the Crown 
of Denmark purchafed the works, which 
it continues to carry on at the annual lofs, 
as is computed, of 4 or 5000 dollars.— 
The fuperintendant, who is a chymif, 
dubbed Doétor, fpoke both French and 
Englith ; but, from the uncourteous man- 
nev in which he'gave us his permiflion to 
fee the works, and the auteur with which 
he introduced us to the workmen, we de- 
rived very little benefit from his acquifi- 
tions. However, the people under him 
fhewed us every attention, and explained 
the purpofes of the different Doiiines 
and machinery with fufficient minutene!s. 
We firft vificed the boiling-houfe, where 
only one of the pans was then warm. It 
was heated by turf and wood, of the for- 
mer of which there ts an immenfe maga- 
zine near the road-fide; and the manner of 
conveying the heat to every part of the 
pan, fhewed a confiderable attention to the 
faving of fuel, to which, indeed, there is 
avery fuficient inducement. We then 
pafled over to the evaporating-houles, 
which ftand on rifing ground, nearly in a 
femicircle, of which the boiling-houfes 
form the fegment. They are feven in 
number, and appear at firft fight like lofty 
wood-ftacks, covered witha roof, being on 
each fide compofed of piles of brufh-wood _ 
in bundles, through which the water is 
continually draining into refervoirs be-_ 
neath, from which it paffes in gradation 
to the top of the next houfe, and f on 
from houfe to houfe till it has paffed the 
whole range, when the brine is judged 
fuliciently flrcng to be let into the boil- 
ers. The water is drawn from the wells, 
and thrown fucceffively to the top ef the 
feveral hou‘es by three windmills, which 
act from the diftance of from two to three 
hundred feet, by meansof very long arms of 
timber, which, by a very fimple mecha- 
nifm, can be attached to or detacned from 
the pump-work in the feveral houfes at 
pleafure. When the wind fails, there Is 
one arm communicating with a water- 
wheel in the Trava, of twenty-five feet in 
diameter, and another witha {maller wheel 
in the B-fta, which foon after runs into 
the Trava, and by thefe a fufficient power 
is procured to keep the pumps at work. 
When both wind and water refufe their 
aid, there are two horfe-wheels, which: 
afford a temporary fupply to the different: 
parts in turn, till one of the other two 
powerful agents is again ready to afiilt 
them. The policy of the Crown of Den- 
mark, in carrying on ftill this lofing con-. 
S cern, 
