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water is removed by a machine driven by 
a wheel. The weftern vein is high in the 
hill, and very dry; but has not yet been 
opened toa great depth. The ganeue, 
however, promifes much. The miners 
work twelve hours, and reft twelve hours. 
‘They receive, as daily wages, eighteen 
Danifh fhillings, equal to about one fhil- 
ling fterling. About 300 tons of the ore 
‘are annually roafted,pounded, and wathed. 
After this procefs, the ore is fent to 
Kongfberg to be farther purified. 
From Ed{woll, our travellers failed for 
a {pace of nearly five miles on the Wer- 
men to Minua. The Wormen they found 
to be avery fine river, expanding like a 
Jake. The country in thefe parts, éx- 
hibited very little appearance of tillage. - 
‘The wealth of the inhabitants appeared to 
confaft wholly in their cattle and timber. 
Hops grow here and there, and thrive 
well. ‘The birch trees were obferved to 
have bees, in many parts, ftripped of 
their exterior bark ; and yet not to have 
otherwife fufiered by that difadvantace. 
Mr. Fabricius was even informed, that the 
bark would within three or four years be 
naturally replaced by other bark of freth 
growth. The bark thus ftripped from 
the birches is ufed as an outer covering 
for the rocts of the houfes. The Noiwe- 
gians of thefe parts are very fkiltul in carv- 
img in wood. They ufe in their works 
of this fort, the wood of the birch-trees, 
becaufe its brown and ‘yellow veins give 
good effect to the figures of the carving. 
On their way to Leuchen, Mr. Fabri- 
cius and his companion pafied through the 
Hedemarchen, the leak mountainous and 
the moft fertile traét of ground in all Nor- 
way. From the rifng grounds, they had 
one of the moft interefting profpects ima- 
ginable, of wide plains, divided into mea- 
dows and wheat fields, and interfegéted here 
and there by {mall forefts and by running 
ftreams. © The bread which is in common 
ufe in this country, is a thin hard cake, 
made of a mixture of oatmeal with barley- 
flour. Thefe cakes are as thin as paper, 
and are.toafted on plates of iron. Near 
Branderud yur travellers found a number 
-of perfons ¢mployed in making a high 
road. This they did by firft jaying a 
number of trunks of trees befide each 
other, longitudinally, then placing others 
over thofe tranfverfly, and, lafily, cover- 
ing over the whole with fand. 
The travellers found it fomewhat un- 
pleafant, that they could never pers 
fuade the innkeepers, in whofe houfes 
they lodged, to fix any charge for their 
entertainment. ‘W'his appeared to arife 
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fromthe ingenuous fimplicity of the man 
ners of the people of that country, and 
from their natural hofpitality. But its 
effect was, to make our travellers, as left 
to fix the charge upon their own honour, 
pay more than they were likely to have 
paid by a charge made by a landlord. 
Among other particulars which -en- 
gaged the notice of Mr. Fabricius was the 
{ulpenfion of the cradles of young children 
from a board by ftraps of leather, which . 
makes the motion confiderably eafier than 
if the cradle were rocked on the ground. 
The Salers, or places of pafturage, in 
thefe parts, have a peculiarity in theuwna- 
ture, which feemed worthy of diftiné& de- 
{cription. They are, in many inftances, 
very remote from the ordinary dwellings 
of the perfons to whom they belong. 
Buildings of a very fimple firu@ture have 
been, therefore, prepared upon them, in 
which the cattle and thofe who tend them 
are indifcriminately lodged. As the fnows 
begin to fali, in winter, the farmers fend 
thei goats, cows, and oxen to the fzlers, 
under the care of female fervants, whe 
tend them, and prepare butter and cheede 
from the milk. Thefe women have each 
the care of from fixteen to twenty cows 5 
and, during their ftay at the felers, ‘they 
fee no other human face but that of their - 
mafter’s wife, who comes once in eight 
days to bring them bread, and to take 
away the butter and cheefe which they 
may have made. - we 
At Neklebye, Mr. Fabricius found that 
the peafants had a ftrong political curiofity. 
They enquired with the greateft eagerneis 
concerning the affairs of Prufhia, Auftria, 
Raffia, and. Turkey. They appeared to take 
a (till warmer intereft in the conteft then on 
foot between Great Britain and her Ameri- 
can colonies. They were all, in their fenti- 
ments, violently partial to Great Britain. 
Our travellers, by gratifying this political 
curiofity, were feveral times readily fupe . 
plied with horfes, which they would not 
otherwife have been able to procure im- — 
mediately for any money. 
(To be Continued. } 
Ee ; 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
COLIANA. ; 
Confifting of SELECTIONS of the curious 
Mss. bequeathed by the late MR. COLE 
to the BRITISH MUSEUM, and lately 
opened. : 
GUNPOWDER. : 
N Dow’s Hiftory of Hindoftan, vol. 1. 
p- 64, mention is made of elephants 
taking tnight at the repert of a gun, - 
the 
