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fore, appropriated for pafturage. The 
country was, to a wide extent, on fire, as 
our travellers paffled. A peafant had 
KindJed the dry heath and mofs in his 
own poffeffion ; and the fire had {pread to 
the adjacent forefts: nur was there rea- 
fon toexpect that it would be extinguithed 
till there fhould be a fall of rain. Ata 
quarter of a mile’s diltance from Eger, 
was a faw-mill, ona height above a wa- 
terfill, to which the trees were conveyed 
by a peculiar contrivance : a wheel mov- 
ed by water, was made to turn a large 
cylinler of woed: to that cylinder was 
fixed a cord’adapted to wind up at one 
fide, while it fhoald be unwound at the 
other: to exch end of the cord was at- 
tached a wooden cylindér, about two 
feet in diameter, and ftrenethened at both 
its ends by hoops of-iron : from the top 
tothe bottom of the height, the whole 
courfe was covered with deals, for the 
purpofe of facilitating the movement of 
the cylinders... Thére were, alfo, rollers, 
to hinder the fri@icn of the coids. By 
the alternate afcent and defcent of the 
cylinders, the trees were hoifted up to the 
faw-mill. The work had cof one thou- 
fand rix-dollais, 
In the river here is a confiderable fal- 
mon-fithery. The falmon are taken un- 
der a waterfall, a few miles from Eger. 
They leap to afcend the waterfall, but 
generally fall back into the pool beneath, 
and are then taken in cages fufpended to 
entrap them in their fall. This falmon- 
fithery yielded formerly twelve hundred 
rixdollars a-year ; but many more nets 
are now employed to intercept the fal- 
mon before they can come thus far up 
the river; fo that its prod ice is not, now, 
move than tothe value of feven or eight 
hundred rixdellars annually. The fal- 
mons here caught are taken almoit all to 
Kongtberg. . 
At Haffel, where our travellers arrived 
on the zgth, they faw a confiderable iron- 
work belonging to the widow Newman, 
which affords near to thirty-eight ton of 
iron in the year, mott of which is fold in 
the {tate of crede iron. I: is light and 
brittle: many ftoves are made of it, and 
fent, by the way of Drainmen, for fale in 
Denmark and Holfiein. The ores here 
ufed are partly a rich but refractory cre 
from the immediate neighbourhood, and, 
in part, a poorer ore, copioufly intermixed 
with calcareous {par, frem the ditri& of 
Avendahl. ‘Thefe two ores an{fwer very 
well tor ufe when they are mixed together, 
as the fufibility which the one derives 
from the calearcous fpar, aids to over- 
Travels in Norway by F.C. Fabrictas. 
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come the refratorine’s of the other. The 
{tones for fupporting the furnace are’ jwro- 
cured from England, at an expence of 
one hundred rixdellars for each time the 
furnace is to be renewed. — 
At Foffum, Mr. Fabricius was ditlap- 
pointed of his expectation of teeing theca 
balt-mine which had been there opened, be 
canie the proper officers were then abiert. 
New works wre thea im a progtefs of 
eredtion, at that place, for the preparatiiun 
ofthe iron and cehalt ores for general 
ufe, A waterfail rendering the floating 
of the timber inconvenient at a particular 
part of the river, recourfe has been ‘had te 
a contrivance, by which a fmall laterd 
conduit conveys the trees from a thot 
diftance above the cataraG, to another 
point intirely beyond it ; and that bretk- 
ing of the trees, by which they weuld be 
greatly {poiled, is thus avoided. Bricks 
have been likewile made at Foflum, far 
the ufe of the furnaces: thofe bricks are 
of Englith pipe-clay, and are folid, hard, 
and white, with no {peck of red in them. — 
The road from Foflum to Scudery ted 
through forcits of pine-trees, covering 
hills which rofe here and there, with nat 
row intervals between them, ‘The inter- 
vening territory was agreeable and fer 
tile ; its foil light and fandy. Near 
Scudery is amine of cobalt, recently dé= 
covered. The direfion of the ttrata of 
the hil containing it, is from north to 
fouth, It prefents, all over it, indications 
of the prefence of cobalt. The gangue 
of the veins of cobalt is of hard gvey 
quariz, witha mixture of mica: ‘the ore 
is not rich, but it is very plentiful. Ay 
fulphureous ore of copper‘is found im the 
fame places. Where the vein is tco nara 
for the hammer, the miners blaf it with 
gunpowder. There is no need of ‘car- 
penter’s work for the fupport of the gul- 
lerics: nor is there any water but whet 
might be eafily removed with buckets — 
A conduit has, hawever, been foi med to 
carry off the water. Under the hil, bet 
within. a gun-fhot’s diltance from where 
the mines have been opened, is a vein of 
beautiful white quartz, which makes an 
excellent flux for the cobalt-ore.| Our 
travellers returning by night to Eger, 
from the infpeétion of thele mines, fam 
on their way the foretts waftefully on fire 
in various places. 
The way from Eger to Drammen, 2 
dengeth of between fix and deven miles, 
led along the bank of the river Drammen, 
through a vale which was, ata {mall dif 
tance’'on the fame fide of the ‘iver, 
bounded by ficep recks crowned © with 
firs. 
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