thfe proprietor makes a.b^d/.voyaigfe, and is’ia'grbat Mèr by'it ;
for filch a cargo is valuable, and very profitable, when' they-arrive
t(? thole populous-.-cidus, -where; they.^are fold’: to a great
advantage.? A Lobfter in Norway is valued a t ^ o more than
■ two ikillings, or 3. penny fterlirig : - this lUsa; fix’d’ pifse wheit a
Lobfter. is eight finches long, or laibovëy?.i^^|f‘r;i^
authorized by the government; but if they be Iels, ó r wantr&ny
of.the claws Üj they yare fold for otter Jkillwjg. At? tHi’slbw rate
they produce; annually 10,000 rpr-dollars in the diocefe -‘o f Stavanger
alone, .fince the puMscp-withih' thefe twenty: «sir* has
encouraged this: fifhery, by -providing bufles' | which export them
from Stavanger, Egarfund, and .other ports'; but for the rèaforis
mentioned above they .can-make but-ona.v.oyage, which muft be
•in the:Sprihg. T h é beft placesfpr Harbours .foFLobfters,' in èach
rf-jyhich three or four biifles may. bè loadèdlevérly year,. are Sku-
defiiaefi, Akre, ^PiTé;fte-havn,:/Vaage ,;orL. Akre i Buk -yop See,
Stierne Oe, Hvidings Oe, Tanan and.Tananger. 'Raft ward ófLiii-
delnaels there are caught and exported alfo a corifiderable number
of Lobfters,but I have no particular accbtnit of the"^uantMbl^fe
That foreigners may not run away- with the -greateft profit by
an early voyagej it is. eftablilhed, that in ;each of the befór-é-faïd
-harbours a Norway veffelmuft be loaded, before they-have per-
miffion to fell any- to foreigners: In Sühanordlehh we havé alfo,
within théfo few years, carried on the Lpbfter-filhery,and annually
p^porh them f* In feme parts of Norway they pickle Lobftèïfe
with vinegar and fpiccs. The peafants in maaiy placés do: not
foem to like this fort of Fifli; and’ tho’ Lobfters and Oyfters are
to be had in fuch plenty* and are reckoned a delicacy by feme,
theyvdo not regard them.
S E C T . VII.
Craw-filh are found in fome of the rivers -in the diocefo of Ag-
gerhuus, particularly a t Friderickftad ; : but in; this part of the
country they will not thrive. Of this a correlpofident of credit
has allured me from his own experience. He has endeavoured to
breed theminfrelh water at his country-houfo, -but to no .pur-
* That the great number of Lobfters crowded together in one ’place ihould pot bite
off one another’s claws, which they are apt to do, they tye up the claws of every one
gfg them with packthread. ; a .. .
t Mr. Danckertfon, receiver of the duties at Storoen, gives an account " that, in
nus prelent year, from his fifhery alone a quantity of Lobfters, to the amount of
foso rix-dollars at prime cöft, have been exported. The inhabitants of Zirkfee in
ü ° rn5 ^eëan this trade, and enriched .thetnfelves furprifingly by it. Now the
lkèwife carjT on this fifhery, and catch a great many Lobfters on the coaft
e f Holland. 'H::, seem ptszu msm'W-ufl vt*
pole f . tn36jm<}fihr%Bj^ find a foiftof Craw-filh which I fticpld rathef
take to be, young Lpbfters, fi^itjheywefce not quite diftiriguilhed
fey their j^rt|ciul|jr.f|jrm. I hav^, for this reafon, exhibited a'- figure -
of one iti the,pfotg ^annexed. , The two foremoft daws are of an
extraordinary, and,foep)iilgly unproportionable lengthy they are
even longer .thanthe whole body : tthey are llender, and of a pentagonal
lhape. The Ihell on ,tljg back and fides is variegated with
particular m^rks, jikev hieroglyphics. : _I have never leen b u t
ope ,o f ’them, whicfey^sj remarkably different from every thing I
baye metjwitfeof Ij:ha|sc l^ |,j Gefoer/reprefonts,?ca|), Xiv. p. 124,
a particular .Craw-filhju|yhjGh fee calls Leo Marinus, or the Sea
fe4 0n,j, ‘f°f v feafon If £annpt..lay • thg eomparilbn muft: foem too
for fetch d. j Ifebis^lg^jesfepweKer agrees pretty well with'ours, in
yelped to the .two long‘claws ; but then the body is much fhorter;
pnd, according tg hi/description, itisfurr.’d, or covered with little
prickles j, neither has it any thing of thofe characters, or refem-
blances ,of lettef%impreffed upon it, which chiefly diftinguilhes
Ifeat,;,! hPye deforibed frpm other kinds j fo that I cannot ’look
upon them to fee the lame*.
Crabs, Cancri Marini^ are caught here in, plenty, of which, there Cfabs.
are three forts, namely; the large Ta&e-fkrabbpr, which is reddilh
jPEi^hfeack, and white under the belly. Thefe. ares found on a
,, fC a r . LmnEEUs fays, in in his Fauna Suecica, p. -358, that Craw^fifli were not feen
,TA VSWe^ai^nlffhe reign óf ’King John f]J ., wftó',' amUngft "bthet things, is rplpjhmed
TdÈitopsftifig. Graw-filh, ?afid<Breecling'thèm JlifJiisCoWn’ country. t ’-
^ ^My jrote jf^ ^ cbU n t,^ firitMhat Ol. Romanis has. taken notice of the
fame Noryegian. Craw -Hiht or t f i b f e , . and ,has,.given i t :the''hWe of'the King of the
Lobfters, and- alfo. the’Letter-LbMeK** As he has not given a figure of it, I fuppofh
@ -agreeable 'to-'find qijeii hérê, wlèöi'1 have taken care fo have very
-e^aQi^andJhe mo^ teNllpftrate the fame, I fliall quote a few words'from that,author
oh trflr fujgeQ;: Quern alii Aftacqm mèdiftm', Teh'mbdJsé magmtutjihis,. Norveg!
üumnJef^Könge, feu Regem Aftätdrum Vocant «(hls niamé is ttik küövè-n ..höre at
prgfent) n^s npnünepte Aftacum Literaturn, qüod ln cruftis- caiidam'tegentibus' .lite-
«ärutq quanindam giWidium & quäfi hiéróglyphicarum' notäs ö®ntet-r'Meus”Aftacus
Literatus lón^tudine eft pedis liMus; Chelai feu fórcip$|vubi.ext3nfi tóta tméal tfunt
craflltie paulo majom pollic^, tptiusicQtpprjsi^^ieq%jm|]cSiAftaco
quod- cj^^iiriong^^mem^rotendantur & l minpres Jint. Djmidïm.enim pedenj
aSqUEit « anxeqüam nffaäiftüf',' quatüor ih'löttgufli expörtfeäis dotan'tut prörhvnenfiis,
alternatim duplici & limplici dtntium ordine conlpicuis, inter quos finus ad fummutn
excurrunt quatuor, eleganti fpcftaculor-In dorfi cruftis notas cönfpiciuntür nigrieantes
(in my fample it is a rißng in the fhell' itfelf, with no difference of colour, which is
'all over a kind of ftraw-coiour,- intermixed with red here and there) quae prifcas moha-
chorum literas quodammodo referunt, utrinque' fex, quarum prima a cauda numeranda
T , lecunda & tertia E, quarta & quinta L , fexta I, utcunque exprimunt ea figura,
qua in vetiiftis rrianufcriptis codicibüs vifuntur. Hunc Aftacumillum eflè crederem’
quem Rondeiêtius Aftacum parvum vócat, nili plebs: forficibus carere dicefet. Nofter
enim quatuor primos forfijibus dotatos 1 obtinet pedés, ut Aftacus major.” . Muf.
Wormian, p. 249. All that I can fay further is, that the figures, letters, , or hieroglyphic
icha'radters, .reprefented by the: force of imagination, are not the fame in all,
-but a “ Luft« naturse elegans quidem fed incertus.’’