SCIENTIFIC PURSUITS AT HOME
numbers. I should have finished it long ago, but I have been continually on a journey of ever changing direction, which scarce left me an hour's time for such work. But as I have now arrived at Stiernsund, I have found an opportunity for a few days to get this up as well as I can. I hope it will win the approval of the Upsal people, and especially your own.
"I have added the Latin to it on the opposite page, according to his Majesty's wish, who pointed out to me where the Swedish should be and where the Latin. . . .
"As his Majesty seemed to be interested in the manufacture of salt in Sweden, we gathered minute information about it in Uddevalla; and we found that in Sweden there are the best opportunities for its manufacture, as there is abundance of forest and water for promoting the work. . . . Should such a work be established, it would profit the country more than the whole of its iron manufacture, in which a loss is occasionally sustained; but in the case of salt there would be a real gain and the money would remain in the country.
"We hope that our journey hither will in time
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