i î 8; A T -6 R .À I Î H I S T Ö-R ¥ of W O R W A Y.
■ h B É «f theféàfo &£ Providence: ist ëi&i^d;%t'Mr. AïiJéilbé '
îà.' tés A ^ ^ t ' (rf.;I<yad>---^'hcii.-ÿ'î488, -namely,
Tütbots, whrêhy life®/bthgr Sifh '’êf>cheiFlGüfldêAkd'X^p.Bÿ >
tkeir fo®fl, the öiöft Urififr tcwfwim;-fcaviö^ > and •
therefore njnft keep the- bottoiiï in ftormy weather; %ri<|ftick
ia thè fârid, ère, for that reafohy prUŸidê'éfWith ask®pér fiiem-
brane, which draws over thêir'igyes, toi keep thé fand ont bf them.
This, âs well as the reft of the Flörinder-kind, feeds chieflyMpn
yoöttg Grabs, and fuch final! Fifh that crawl upon the faiids/and
cannot eafily. ëfèape from them : the Sea-eggs,nr^^archms alfo
whidh ftick to-the ciifts, become an éaly •pir^-ito;ithettfi!'ki^i#a-
. food of which they feem very fond *.
Hom-fsfc. The Horn-filk, • or Horn-give, the Muræna, ik-ih Ihape round
and long, like an Eel j it has greenilh bónès, and is not ill-
tatted. It is. ’fonnd here, but not ’ in fiich numbers as-in* Denmark,
and ótir filhermen do riot mUch regard it -
Horr. The Horfi which we call Horkeiri Denmàrk, is a fmatlfrefhwater
Fift,w:Kkhfome people reckon to blifvery delicate - but
they are fo FuJlof-bories that it is-tronblefome,-and W
gOrous, to eat them.
S E C $ v - VIII.
H«i-£,k. The Hval-filk, or, as we call them here, Qnaî, the Whale
Balæna, is a Fifh very well known, by name* a t leaft, to . evei4
body, though but few know any thing further of them 1 there
being fcarce any but the filhermen who have ever feenrthëni
have never had the Opportunity of feeing a Whale except oike,at
Sognefaefte^ and then he only foewed his back aboveéthe water
which feem’d to be above forty feet long ; arid immediately he"
div d again. The whole Whalekind are* divided by fenfe into
fix or oeven, ana by others into twice as many Ipécies-f- j thö’ thefe
aufoors under that name comprehend at large all the viviparous
Fifhfes, which are all formed in the womb’ of the dam nearly%
* vert; fiHgaJar hçre «ccurs' to- mpy rekte<à by IVJr, Meffor Frius* cdn-
H - t ó i T m S r S I S * Næfne ^hichtherfomeumescatch.Turbot, and other Som, o nH e S n d fe
wf*fe cornmumcation wuh the fea; but it muft* have it by S e ^ S S S S
•Ih»i?mA lsf®11aJted of a nver m Haraeroe Kald, SaltensToo-derieand,like '
wi&.of Lille MioS, in Vajders, many miles from the fea ° 1® »
learned Icelander ïe fe ’ o i. Wormiüsf'.Th. fiartholi^
nu% ^ n hm O | fe r y a t ,?4i: reckons nolefatlian 22 forts of. Whales, which ate- caupfa!
W this£ < 3 1 P noTpreVnd t o X
’ Sch°rtTeld’ F^ber’ Clur!lfs> Tolpius, and others,‘Icnew onfy
rnr™, 1 ut^ na’ Bahena Baiæna dentara, Cete, Phyfeter,&'Ufli*
T , t0 ? eat ° * * ofe onjy that vifit our Norway'coaft, tho’
<|wi#pcr abode is feveral hundred miles,frhtn hence, towards the*north-weft, '(7 " '
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N A T U R A L H IS T O R Y óf WO R W A Y . n 9
the; fime;manner.:; j ^ iCeta^i Ipi^es^ auÖrOie Afiftotele, ii pfpprie
fy ex fèiniriei non
|f*ex ofOygigfièrft, nfa I^yhini, Bafeeösey Pliyfêterès. Qp^hqdam
{CrT(alii,i£tmn Lkini; tum^riabei vené^syJ eétaeèös accepéririt- pro
&; grandibus iè^a&Isf geati^ris pifdbus..' > ÈriKderk. Latiöi belluas
i;&lriarièasidtkmrvSKèftnt,:iab imip^riitafo epiêor, & magna euii
®itor#eftabus firinlitridiffe, nani .oedom molo' cohcipiuntur Sc gig^
pnlrnmes haberity léöea,: Véfiêam, tèftes, rinferitülam, ,
'‘,-föemin^, .vulvam, tfeftres, mamftlas lays the lëarned Er. Willoughby,
L. He adds abfö a little further, that
^<ier^eri£;èpimon-
Was_léent alnfoft ev^|y>«!wl!&e iri’thè öC^,n,‘ ^fgUnd^^nb^Oniy iri
the North IBs,, kifóOfièf t«f£. #&ichyp ftikë* the Opening
of the trade to."; the Indies, ïall; abouti the;jSpariiih arid African
fcas r it is* therefore*; ftippolèd that they' have. detèrféd thofè lèas
upon:that account : but this opimoti h^s iitde •i^^^^|>'|.'föf’we
afo lenfible that great numbers of flaps fail' alfb on: die North
Sea ; arid particularly they muft be difturbed by the manyigreal
fhtps that are {rationed annually On that fifhery. By accident per-1-
haps: thefè. Séa-monfters may carry themfelyos too. far fouthward;
buff ffieir-proper refidence doubtlefe has been; as it is-now5, in the
Nörthsfeau'-J They; ate sannually 'êeri of i
Norway, about: January ; but fhey' are* not received; :is efeeiriies,
nor do they meet ^with any oppofitioa, wiu(IÉ’'lnd léd^ yk'-Tof-
fered ' but as be jftö
known to them. They are ferit by the all-wife Creator T e f e t e l ^ ^
hundred miles, .fo ferve as his ii#rumerifs, to' drive nüihbérïeÈd£nce-'
ftoals pf Herrings, Mackrel, arid other Filh,' 'intO the creekS
formed between the rocks arid Hkrids that cover the coaft, and
about the land-banks, to be the fubfift^icè of many thoufends
of people.. They likewife caufe the importatiori of a great deal
of wealth, either in Ipecfè Of inefchandize. When our peafehts
and filhermen obferve the Whrfe at feveral mifes diftance^ which
they know by the appearance of Imall water-l^uté uri’ thé air,
which they, ejeft through the epenings in the head, by refpita-
tion, tbay conclude by tbas joyful Ignal; . thaït the Winter-
hart eft or fifhery Is approaching. Immediately the fea appears
covered,:
;; *j$Vse arek^led bowevpr in Sundsjwiflj» juft b f Bergen, and m feme other jdaaesj
every Spring, ioötö .ofj^e^aü eneSi o f . 3 0 : or 40 feet in length, which venture coo
far. in the creeks j;-and Xgoil- the fifhing-.nets. . They ^re ftadk with faarpohiss,thef»mU
of w|ich the fejitfi know how to polis#, ,fo tfesat afeöüt the wound «here wiU apppar a
ipot as big^as a* fmall jdifti. ih pirGumferenGe,. which juns thro’ the fkin, iatsand flelh ■,
which Kft is; turn’d quite white,- and often mortify’d. The fleih otherwife is o£a dark
•rcd> and appears almoft like beef: it is eaten by our peafants, who have lhewed it
IlftefMd afuired me that it taftes well, and is wholfome food.