every particular; developed the abfl»fe®aeaJ^h^im4'1dil8dvefea
the fecret defigns $of tithe, infinite. Creator) whdfcl way&Tlaf© paft
finding out. I Bold' withr Bartholin. “ Officio fuo f^fecifi|rMy®
ficus) ubi: rationes adduxit probabiles. ’ It dsinot im ©he refped •
only that pur Saviouf’sWords hold7 good; the wind, blowoeth ibhere
i t ' l i f e and thou hearefi the foun d thereof but thou knoweft not
from whence it cgmeth nor whither it gaeihim^Xidilthe wi%>;ffiap
does , not '^a^eajgi ^Beni-he; fomee per,(feme .whafc/aiet
upon thereqrthi w feeis'whtft is bbtwibct our hatfdsi i dSqjiyqyjtr, d§i!f
almighty and all-wife. Creator, cannot be difpleafed. at an inyefii^
gation of; his works,y.with a pious land refj^t^uf docility;, nor; at
the praifes we give to his holy name for dOjtnuGl^as ^llsiyvithin
the extenjt,pF omjacuifies-; refting affured, iffiat-what ^Beyond
our reach in this ftate of probation,' w i l l ,(explained to*,us in
that new heaven and new earth which we 'look tfor accOfding „to
his promife.
I ffiall r^Ty,j;pdriuant to my promlle, g^Tpmp :aGgqunt pf,thp
fqurces^froin whence'.1 have1drawmwfiat-JgM'qi$^|S4dlP:s$lk
public., Thefe are partly writings relating-to Norway,’»j|>artly\my
own certain experience, ;as far as it extended, . and. ptu4pylthp^bi
fervaficps; of:fc>me intelligent'perfops, cpmmpnic^itjed . ft) ftifeat toy
defire.' •
In the firft elafs are -pur, nqteds ffiffiorians 'apd cjitoqgraph^,
elpecisdly Peter : Nicholas foi|Epyly£^eriqie^|arit ©vefr
the difirid ofilsifter, toinifter! df Vndal,; jnthe,dipqefe. pf Qbriftian-
fand, and a. Panpanef $Ȥ whjo^b^idgsffiis
tranfiation of
tongue into modern Dandh, wrote a pofthumous work, p^bli^ed
at..Copenhagen*::ire quarto,. in the year, irxtitlcd,. , fFp-ue
Defcription of Norway and the. adjacent |fiapds,, Of, thi^ piece
Dr. Chriftopher Steinkuhl, 'in s6&5, pubUfficd aGerman^trajnilafioii
with" additioHS^nlt gives :a; toferajjkiaQeoHht/of
every -province in gpnetak .i^f^lWiyffippj. apd . the^n^tnjes of the
diftrids and parities; with feme i particularson,the nature! and
quaqualities
of ,the foil; but thefe afe but few in number), it nothav-
ing been his defign to treat exprefily of them. Mr. Jonas Ramus;
heretofore paftor tothe community of; Norderhong; in Rongerige,
in the diocefe of Aggerhuus, goes further. This writer, befides
mahy. other theological and hiftorical compofitioqs], has, ,:d^ferved
highly- of his country for his Defcriptiori of Nbrway, -publil]ied in
quarto, at Copenhagen 1715. It.issachQrographicalJmprpvcment
upon Uhdalinus’s work, dp^dj&lwith,
that author, ihe«confines/himfelf witluh> thej J|ffieilimj|^j
fuller on the mature apd iprodudsi of the country, addingi particularly.
at the clofe,:from page 240 to 274,^atrappendix^ enumerating
the feyeral beads, infeds, birds, . fifhes, herbs and trees.;
This qoiffifts indeed of little more than the bare names of them,:
but was o£ ufeBoWeveP to me, as it opened a large field for fi$-t
ther/enquiry.' Arendt Berendfens Fertility"of Denmark and Notrl
way,/.printed .in. quarto .at ;Copenhagen,cinj .1 f jb^is a book which
exhibits a .clear.-account of the. different fertilityjof
provinces, and.fcverai particulars cbneerpim£;the products; of the
country;, hut this/again proceeds :;no farther th ^ sgiYing|,the
names of things *. In fome> certain; poiijts, .-1 havfeheen moft in-.-
debted to Mr. Lucas Debes’s F.txoa, Referatatj .or. Defeription of]
ffie; Ferro Iflarrds, publifhed at .Cdpehliagenj in odayp-,' 1673-
This gentleman, who was fofmerljr fupCriritendent of Ferro, was,,
for the times he lived/ittj and' the Opportunities -.he had, a goodj
naturalift, and, as the iflands he deferibes) lying parallel r to the
weftern coafts of Norway, have feme ahMogy with them, elj^cially,
on account of the feaTfifh and water-fowls, • his * obferyations were-
of greater affiftance to me thanuany :other, wprk. : I h^ye^gwifej
gleaned feme good materials from diftind toeafilfes pn fiqgle]fub-,
jeds, ffich as Wormius’s Tradatus de mure N'Pty^gicq;:PiDethar-
dingiiDiff. de vermihus in Norvegia qui ne^'^yr^Oirlp^r’^Hop-..
. ■ *. The Nbrrigra IUuItrata.of Jens Lauridfeii^glf,' hardly, defervea to be ranked
among the chorographics of the coqntry,. it containing, littlg of.any importance but
what is hiftoricah' •
P ar t I. d ticul