16o
Cods roc.
Träm-oil of
the Ihrer.
K A T U R A L H I S T O R Y of N O R W A Y
dry’d. Roskiær Cad is flit up the back, and then dry’d. Riind-
flskj or Round-fifh, is. that which we commonly call Stock-fifh ;
dry’d without flit;tiiig. The KlipÆih::;is^ flit dife®! the
Roskier, and is dry’d .by fpreadirtg it on .the cliflk, from whence
it has its name. The gopdnefr of thefe feveral forts • depends
chiefly upon, the ’Weather in! which th’dy are ear’d jyfot lÉdtsddi»
not happen to be dry enough-for the Fifh to be thoroughly^e-
netrated by the wind and c o ld th e y ijiti to teofc fedfi particularly
near- the bones. Hence tfre Nprdland'jRfruhd'-fifhflsfôiïlIo
oned the beft,, becaufe tflc cold .being more intenfe there, penetrates
them fooner than in other places. In th e Baltic -< m e fell
mofi fait Gód, but at Hamburgh, Bremen,rand’ Airdterdam, the
dry ; from ‘ whence they are ^carried up the river&'all over Germany.
Some are. exported to Flanders-and England, but ir®t !£o
many as to Italy, .Spain, andy other Countries S® the Meditêtrai
.Aean, As for the Frenchÿ th&ys’-tràde rhemfelsresî in this branch,
fince their fisheries in North America have: beèn b ro u g h t,into"' a
good condition, i The Fifh ate £b i well .cured"! there, that? in moffc
markets they give them the preference- to 1 ours t %u¥ ptorgafed
Norwegians, who havé heen longer nfed to it,, ought ccertainly-ito
equal, if not excehthemy in this pakticMar ;ipr|
follow their method. If this be too #ifficult a" tÄ
to fend fome people thither to leàrn the art, -fte, would ibe v,ery
Well worth while«. To travel,-in order to make impróvemeiitsÉS
trade and commerce, would be more laudable in our: young' mep
of fortune, than any other end they can propofe toithefafelyès in
vifiting foreign countries.
Notwithftanding ,this, the., French cannot do .without -tKeilpawn
o f our Norway Cods, which they ufe by way o f bait, toi'ftrew
in the lea when they catch what they call Sardeller^ à fort?lof
Filh fomething like our Herrings. For that purpofe lèverai thorn
land calks of cods roe are iàlted down every year in,Norway:.
Within thefe twenty years particularly* the ’demand has > been lo
great in Fiance, that wé have exported thither annually fourteen
or fixteén fliip-loads of roes only, befides a fmall quantity
which they carry in their own bottoms.
From the liver :of the cod there are extracted lèverai, thoulànd
calks o f good train-oil*. Befides all this, we ulè the long air
or Iwimming badder, which lies along the Cod’s back-bone. This
* Our peafants dp not melt.it down,; but'throw it into a yeficl, and fo let it dißolve
of itfejf. The oil, extraâçd from Çpd only . (,nçt.reckoning that from other fat Fiib,
as the Saelhunde, Springere, and Marfviin) exported from Bergen annually, amounts
to 7000 calks, and fometimes more. We.reckon generally that zoo,Cods yield a calk
of train-oil.
IS
Nf A T U R A sL r H I S T O R Y of iF 0 R, W A Y.
is dry’dy 4 hd | | | H . the flameÉÈ Sundé-Maver.f It is eaten by ■
fome people, and is-reckoned to create an appetite, agre&ble to
iffi name.. r ° • •
1 g W M B W i a^agraable Fifll of EIomM.br™,
H W j§§ whtçhjeafon,.!^ to repeat the.defcription, I fhalJ.onIv;
pWewp, tlu t tlte p tw c p d dtffi rones coi:tia> in its being b e t t l
tafted m d .W g firmir flpfl,.. Tnngorne, are in flrapè r a * i i
W than roniul, g H H H foie- c f the foot ; and aïe' ewafa
' here in many placesyjJpt not $n any gyéat number, > f
VIII.
Vah;i$, or .Rofmuj^ryJj. i'p dur old Nôrvegian, RoftonorirllSI
^Rofinarus, the Waflru#fr Séa-Horfe; is ^ r lm e fir ife s fhis
epaft but nôt fo frequently,-asf about' Iceland or Spitsbe*; where
according to Marten s SpitsBprg'Travels, chap, iv they aïe found'
W . often
K - • f e W y a u d ^ ^ a ^ i ik f i jh o f e o f a - k S c o t 1:
S g g H S i ^ air the 'skill like the Sea-Câlf; bût what 9
ippll remarkable, is their;.|U Jarge Teeth,or, tusks, which pro-
3ea out of théir Müthy'aad' age; fall 1*8 inches! W - thefë‘ar«
as'good*,as ivory foçja^kind of,turn’d work; and thereforà
fhis creature-.^.câ.I|çgj|by * fonre( tfre. Sea-Elephant. With ' thefe '
teeth it.is faid they bite, g | dccafioHalfy fafteA themfelves : to a
P H lancl tor rnufcHles? whHich are ItheIh pr Mineipal faoodm. dig in the
. They are faid^fp lilltbëirheavy/ïodie; upon the flakes of ice4
and rocks by the help, of. thefe teeth; where they afe found
J c e f onymous ^thor,-whofe 'account of
• .the Whale-fifhery is prefixed to PèyreVii’s Defetiptioft pf Iceland
relates, p 1 14 what he fays he had been an eye-witnefs of
namely, :thatwhéré they are killin^ohe df!thefe creatures, feveral
mere oT the fame kind will come to their affiftance ;• which they
fre<?Ü.entIy dQ^ nd with * large teeth before-mentioned, make
a violent attack on any dung that oppofes them. OW Jacob
US’ m, h‘s Maf< Rte^ P* *5, that the Wallrufs s fierceft
battles are with the great White Bear ; from which we may conclude,
that, like amphibious creatures, they fometimes feei the
i | l | 0r mountains of ice that abound in thofe ffeas.
^fiderfon, m his Defcription of Iceland, p. Z44, faySj that they
1 A W}*? ^*®:rePt Sea-Horil'’fSifne of our filhermen pretend they have feen
•times, which has appeared to themïto be ad or ^fcet'lontf w i f f i L « I j
mane, which ltgenerally.hplds above, the water, exaéüylike thofe of a reil d
and not to be diftinguilhedr'but by die fize : its colour ' thel L t- ^ r orfe»
\;but of dlh'th«»-» no ' ’ * yfay’ «M white as fhow,
have
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