. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. ith brick, and in various westward, we enter Carlstadt, or, as anciently called, Warmeland, a regionentirely of mines, forests, and lakelets, and bounded on the south by the extended shores ofthe Wener lake. Carlstadt is situated near the point where this lake receives the Clara, aconsiderable river, which traverses these wooded regions, and down which immense quanti-ties of timber are floated; advantage for this purpose being taken of the floods to wh
. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. ith brick, and in various westward, we enter Carlstadt, or, as anciently called, Warmeland, a regionentirely of mines, forests, and lakelets, and bounded on the south by the extended shores ofthe Wener lake. Carlstadt is situated near the point where this lake receives the Clara, aconsiderable river, which traverses these wooded regions, and down which immense quanti-ties of timber are floated; advantage for this purpose being taken of the floods to which itis occasionally subject. One company from Gottenburg has saw-mills, at which are annuallycut upwards of 50,000 planks. Carlstadt is a place of from 2000 to 3000 people, presentingthe ordinary aspect of Swedish towns. It collects the vast produce of the mines andforests of Warmeland, and transmits them across the Wener to Wenersberg, whencethey find their way to Gottenburg. Considerably in the interior is Philipstadt, in thevery heart of the iron mines, by which it is supported. 488 DESCRIPTIVE GEOGRAPHY. Part Persbcrg Mine. The most remarkable are those of Persbcrg (Jig. 243.), a few miles to the east-^ _ ward. They are thirteen in number, dug ^^ — - *=/,r., •~„.:^~~. into a mountain entirely composed of veins and beds of iron ore. Dr. Clarke, afterhaving, in the of ten years travel,inspected many of the principal works oftliis kind in diflerent countries, declares, thathe had never beheld any thing equal to thisfor grandeur of effect, and for the striking circumstances under whichhuman labour is here pertbrmed. In thewide and open abyss suddenly appeared avast prospect of yawning caverns and prodi-gious machinery. Immense buckets, sus-pended by rattling chains, were passing upand down; ladders were scaling all the in-ward precipices; upon which the work-people, reduced by tlieir distance to pigmies,were ascendmg and The cl
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