,(
- The other. clafle.s,of; Sea-animats,-: and ;WQU;S;.kinds;.of;)Fjihcs3
pffba|fehaye5 imprb coinpleat in: this:ismfe ;
but: Ith&y©i60Bopared-it I'vyitb. more laccaiatoiMui. particular dafc-
fjgn^ijNs than fihave been -. able with-^certainty to give, froinqmy
n-yyn,.W.cmyj',,rafrefpQnijents.experience.n
very exa& and* cfirefifl' in«ohferving. ttyfe’ limits j anffv .•$£&£
extends,beyond thqm I don’t affirm,for a certainty, vOf Infeeds
and Qnadrjjpqds found, here alfb fuch .a£-(in
other' European countries are little, ,or hardly known^^d
therefore ,1 havll&lu? more prolix in,, | | | description of, them.
As, for' the'account of .the rational inhabitants, f
did not firft icLten'^-to Joupb upon,^4 Eut,J3ugofff.%ther
confideration, I foundnothing in it tEa$,w(p^cpflM<pt wifchthe
plan ;of~a Natural Hiftory. .jyEor this reqfp^I-have,| iii the ,'two
laft, chapters, colle&ed as many,; particulars, us, might 'bp Sufficient
to give the reader Seme, h}ea*Qf the . genius ^ailyl qualities
of
I have one ,thing to,c^>ferW in this place-with regards© a
literary article mentioned ,in myji.p4e%:^to the fir$vB>J$ipf
this work: I there reckoned the antient treati%;v called^gpecu-
lum-Regale,- amonj^.;-^ lqS|,;i>pd£ |a§|e|Jed
the wantj of intelligence that .might have, beery coIlected-#pm
it ; -but I have been Jince informed, withiKthe>greateft pleasure,
to the ^contrary, in“a, letter ;£ccwix.:'iJ3e;
councellpt of: Ratejrjd^ed, the; zp th^of Jai\ ^ t y s | j 1 jb&d Eke-
wifi^^thd toolate) that u; copy. cffhat ‘antient
be found in the univerfity-library iatiQppenh^^q, among, many
other manufcripts given to the UnivPrfity by t;he late ^rofelTor
^rnfs^aghseh^‘l riu cktklogub'bf • M^^don^^sJ[rf|f^s; t$be
printed, at leaff,nfor.the informabon offoreigners: and ether?»!t:
I am further, informed, in that learned gentleman’s'letter,
that thfe old notion of the Speculum Regale being written'by
the wife and valrbht, 'king S verre? or at leaft fey:his( -order;, ^nd
confequently in* his -time,'. is-erttirely. with'outifbundatibn’^fbr
Mr. Luxdorph obferves that it was written about the latter end
( vxi ■ )
of the thirteenth, o f. beginning „''of the fourteenth century.
The author calls himSelf one of the firft m rank at the king
•of Nor ways courf, and iijforms us that he lived in .Helgoland,
initfhe didbfe of|#TCronh^flj. Tl§is boojtjl® -wlfefen in ffhe
manner of a dialogue betwixt a-father and Ion, containing,
befides many good rules*' bo$i political «fed civil, fevqral bbler
vations in’ natural philofophy, relating to the Northern
Countries; but not- lb much of Norway.in particular,’7,as of
Ireland ^Iceland, ana Gfe^nfand. ,
I h'ave nothing farther to oblerve; but lhall conclude with
this ardent wilh, ‘ Thatr the - eyes d f the Lord, which behold
'all the nations.upon earth, may always look favourably upon
f, this country and peopldj both/in all ,Spiritual and temporal
«’ affairs “ of him, and through him, and to him are all things;
K To him be all honour ’ahd glory fof evermore.” Aiuen! •,
1 Bergen, April _ ‘ ? .Y , T n
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