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204 RECOLLECTIONS OF
beautiful specimens exhibited from 'the foundries at Fagersta,
Soedersfors, Dannemora, Kloster, and Siljansfors.
Nature seems to have accumulated her metallic treasures in
this extremity of the globe, as besides iron and steel we also
rind in Sweden copper, lead, silver, nickel, and graphite.
The marble shown is also very fine and of various descrip-
tions ; we notice particularly that of Gotland with its ca-
pricious and multicoloured veining, and that of Jonkoping,
which is green, black, grey, mottled, &c.
Norway and Denmark boast of no machines, but they
excel in the contrivances peculiar to a primitive and amphi-
bious people; slimly built models of ships to skim the seas,
and fishing tackle of all kinds to reap in this ever fertile field
to which they lay claim.
Norway shares to a certain degree the metallurgical riches
of her elder sister, Sweden ; she shows a splendid collec-
tion of minerals, among which the products of the royal
mine of silver at Kronsberg shine right royally.
Another source of revenue for the Norwegians is the
luxurious manner in which nature has clothed the animals
of that country, to enable them to support the severity
of an almost everlasting winter. The blue, white, black
and red Fox, the Lynx, Otter, Sable and Woolverene,
are covered with a thick and soft coat, of which they are
divested to furnish clothing for the human race who is not
so well provided for. Brandt, of Bergen, and Hotter & Bor-
ger, of Christiania, send some beautiful furs derived from
the various species we have named.
Needle-guns seem to be in favour in Sweden; we find two
there, one made by Hagstroene's system, the other by
beautiful specimens exhibited from 'the foundries at Fagersta,
Soedersfors, Dannemora, Kloster, and Siljansfors.
Nature seems to have accumulated her metallic treasures in
this extremity of the globe, as besides iron and steel we also
rind in Sweden copper, lead, silver, nickel, and graphite.
The marble shown is also very fine and of various descrip-
tions ; we notice particularly that of Gotland with its ca-
pricious and multicoloured veining, and that of Jonkoping,
which is green, black, grey, mottled, &c.
Norway and Denmark boast of no machines, but they
excel in the contrivances peculiar to a primitive and amphi-
bious people; slimly built models of ships to skim the seas,
and fishing tackle of all kinds to reap in this ever fertile field
to which they lay claim.
Norway shares to a certain degree the metallurgical riches
of her elder sister, Sweden ; she shows a splendid collec-
tion of minerals, among which the products of the royal
mine of silver at Kronsberg shine right royally.
Another source of revenue for the Norwegians is the
luxurious manner in which nature has clothed the animals
of that country, to enable them to support the severity
of an almost everlasting winter. The blue, white, black
and red Fox, the Lynx, Otter, Sable and Woolverene,
are covered with a thick and soft coat, of which they are
divested to furnish clothing for the human race who is not
so well provided for. Brandt, of Bergen, and Hotter & Bor-
ger, of Christiania, send some beautiful furs derived from
the various species we have named.
Needle-guns seem to be in favour in Sweden; we find two
there, one made by Hagstroene's system, the other by