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Hvidling.
Wonderful
Privilege.
ftnndftigler.
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different/ ‘as may be -foeh- mJ; the-’ plaib annexed, ■ wHére- ft- |pt
exaéïly | delineated/; ‘ '#tf. ‘IsucaS ©fcbÖS ftëhriÖSi| ill Me^OSefbripi
tioh! ©ffEarrete/ jfc-FÖl*/ a particular fort <fftWt»8lö/ rédttéfciT!Dög-
lingen ; this is abbafi -30 feet long/ and iJ th'ééafieft 'CaUghtëf
all thei species1/ fot It5%ill reihaih1 fti-11 white =a
fbfeugh its veyë-lidJ: !fhéfe hav©;tee-'ëh4tiitÉ©tskórfeiftingu!foifi^
marks ! óf the Whale kind naoreferongty thaftfety othbr. They
&re drawn afhoré by théfe' ropès. The' train 'óiÉèxtraéted from
thefe Dogliftgers is IB- fine and fubtil,' that/ the-' fl vëflfels- fel ls/pu t
intb Lmuft - be madë óf/Wood 'óf u véty ©lofe^êtotóxtórë. If the
lat be eaten, it immediately tranlpircs ; th;rough cthe:;'poresi and
turns the perfon’s linnen yellow *.
The Hvidlmg,; Hyftlfeig, called be£e Quitlin g / the Wlptfog,
AfelluS C^didj^/fè called from- ks^hiiC'i^bufj^^ahtóSdiBfflg
fix’d Fïïh/ with %■ ibh^fii"‘bcdy/!Mff*teïy-#larp t^thvJ-EThe
flelh of this f Fifu and1 Agreeable ‘tofehe * paMtëS
Whitings are moftly found; where the gFOÜftfefe-muddyi, And
caught with a hook and-Hftefe MF. Ahderfeftfel óf oj^nioièy that
the Whiting' is what the Ftench’properly call Morue/1’. and-->44
caught in abundance -Ón'.’the MhkS%f{;Mêi#fótedlMÖ;:®he rèldtelsi/
in his Defcriptibft of- Iceland, ^p/isfethat -this greedy Fifii iiais
by nature a certain ptoperty/whïöh /-pefhUpsy1- tnarty gluttóns of
the human lpeeies would be glad of/ namely,' that wheuhfc aóei-^-
dentally 'happenis' to IWallow a piece of-wood, or afty thing'hè
cannot digeft, he can-' throw -tmf1 his ftomath / tUrft1 it I infidfedut,
and empty it ih the’ water / and! theft fuck:- it“ in *agaiu'*Malt&
proper place. 1 “This DidnysT^nfirmSr!fr6m his^ öWn ©bfefvfeión/
in his Delcription dós cotes de 1’Atnerique Septentfïöfiale, Voh iii
p. ï8tV
Thé HündfÜgler, Huftdftagë/ -Aculèat-us minor, the- eorhrftóft
Stittlebackj 'is Önéhf fhe\fnèaMeftrof Tifh /uit-moves! about fety
quick in the Water, and is daily found nèat‘«fee* ftorehoufos, bu t
-It tnót' much rëgardèd. :- God’s - próvideftd©/ Which'
fignally difplayed in Irftall feiift^s, dilcoYéishitlèif here/ by jk&
viding this little diminutive órèature/ - which does;!not 'eXccèd- tWÓ
* In the he^ds of thefe Doglingsrs is.fa;d,tp be found alfö the -aforefaTa rvabha.vp
or fpérnla- ceti, Which'is’k/owp tatbtf a 'göod'hfealin'g;me3icinéV-fronji Wneheè I ebn-
cludeit to have been öné of- thófe' which the Bremer.Jfilhe-nnèn:tcaUght j förne; few/years
;ago,_ and- -had;.bever, fcên ifief lUcb-ihefo^; from -.which/Ifbepd- .-HaiSasus;.took occafion
to write his Difquifition bn the Leviathan orjob/ aba Whale or Jonah. A French
Uanl/ation 0f.i&at,Treatife,was, glinted, in the Bibliotheque Germanique, Tom.
Art. iv. But S .Ah
toa^er/ for the LeviatSahiife^ms.inaftiikdy to be t^e NbrvpgiahjSpi^w^^wfcfe^
rimll tfearW ’iiiihe eKapter of Sea-Món&rai 1 at leaft/hls' appe/ra jtbb|^^fgbable,
and more agreeable to truth, than any tliing yét advanced oh fnis iubjeél....
inches
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inches in' length, iwifth'tW6- pre€.tyibflg^feones in propertion to its
bulk, which are yety^ufp/aridipoiftted like -fwords I with thefe,
Which ffand erei^ ©n Uafeh »fide," they defend themfelves - from
m M I -' 1 ! v.'F,./
I - The Hyffe,- by ’ the Germans called Schelfifchy - is- very like' the Hyffe. ;
WMtin'g j'' it cKffers only by (omeWlmall leales on the Ikin, which
inakes th'e:;otherm©r'e'^fevidehtly ©f the Cod kihdi !th©’ -they^beth
belong tp -tbat gfeiifti- Thgi Hyilen hasv?'alib, “by i way ©f
diftinCtiori,f two black Igftts oft- the back' part of its neck : thefe
are -caught,- like Whiting#, on muddy Sftttoms, ‘ in great quarii-
tities ;” tho’ they aM Wd^ feldom experted, \inlefs-:i t be for Want
^better'fiMsdf1 Pifli.: ' ';;
^ '§ ^ . C T. IX.-
The J^dlt/Yulpfecuk marina, the Sea FbX, ;is a Fifii about JWSfk'.
two feet long, fomething Mke a &iajU} ShlSrkq-',fe.,..teB 'a white
fhining lkin, 'and-there is-a^p&iftted bone jutting out oftbis -neck ;
the tailds very long and narrow,- and ends in a point. This Fifii
fe caught-: only in^deep water, and that but feldom, and byacci*
dent. It is very fat, particularly the liver/-which yields a fort
ruftiiig better than Any other oil, which makes it much valued. %
The’Rarpe, Catpio, the Carp, is.not a Fifh properly belonging Karpe.1
to Norway, 'and therefore very Icafce. When -they are imported
aftd'pdFid-our watets, their breed bicoines gradually lefs aftd
lels.l This a learned friend of mine has affured me from his own
ekperieiice. ?
The.Karudfc is to be found here, as ift otheir places, in the Karadfe.
rivers arid pohds / we have both the large yillow, and the final!
darkilh kind w
‘ ' The Kobbe, ©r Saelh-und, the Sea Calf, Phoca, is t© be reckoned ^ be 01
ambngft the ampbibiofts animals/ for tho’ water is its proper
element, it always loves to be near the Ihore, or the rocks and
cliffs/ and farther up the North-lea they will lay themfelves on
the great flakes of ice, elpecialty when they want to fleep or
reft themfelvess A Kobbe-oft the common fort is about five or
fix feet long. The Steen-Kobbcrne is fomething lels, and thofe
they call here Tfay-Eriken- are a kind of- large overgrown
* Oti a rock W|igjtluiee mil^fceyond Lories Panfoa^ge in Qulbrandfdalen, thgrqare
Found in a pqndvKarBdfe!; of J5ilKdp
flerfleb fras. -c&wer.jh^sllaat the librie^ df'lhwh, HIS
vifiiation-journey, braught to ChriflSaiia and fliewud- thas^; j^re|ta}g«n ^ofe ti^at
were unacquainted with th§m) for bonss 6 / large Cod. In, Stora-Mios are found alfo
Karudfer as big as a large plate, ’
- Tast II. K k Sjelhund,