3 0 N A T U R A L H I S T O R Y of Æ O m v A Y ;
firins of wild beafb, _Tui|aj,£H them with, warm‘ finings. for thein
clothes, and good bed-coveringjjj 3, The innumerable -flight^ o f
wild fowfs fupply them with downamd feathers : 4. The moun-->
tains feemfclv.es ferve them for fences, and retreats fiwnm-fts^
ibdeed, a^e unhabitable, on account of the cold and barrennefs ;
but 'feefeelving fidcs, or interftices, efpecially where feeexpofure
dofâ.not face the north or eaft, enjoy weather that is af ieaft
Reportable,’ But above all it is to he obferved, that even the cold
fir .occafons warmth iia the bodies of men; its oompreffiverforce
rendering the body more firm and compad, and fortifying it againft
external «juries* and thus the natural warmth is by the olpfe^'
nefi of the pores repelled towards the inner vital parts, and more
‘ particularly concentrated in the-ftomacfa 5 To that the northern
people are known to digeft finoked flefh, dried fife, and other, food •
hard of digeftion, better than any other nations*. In feortfin
this as in every other refped, the oeconomy of thé Almighty to-:’
wards his creatures is full of wifdom, goodtiefs, and hâfmonyi I
can even venture to affirm, that were the Norwegians tempted by
any thing to change countries with the Italians, the winter’s cpld
would not be the motive to the exchange; for this is the leaf!of
their complaints* and, for -my «wsl part, I cataof fey that the
cold here has ever been more painful to me than in other parts.
S E C T . IX.
• ” £^*3 After this account of the cold in Nrirvray* ft ts proper to fpeak
in caafes, of the heat. Here Lanprehend many would interrupt me. with a
queftion, whether it is ever actually warm m Nomay? I anferer
from experience in the affirmative t for in the belt femmer-
months it is not only warm, but femetimes to fucha degree* that
according to the vulgar phrafc, it may make a ravengape-y and
perfons, who payé been bom and edueatedtimhot-elimates, might
fency themfelves fuddenly tranfported home. Rartieularly in this
prefent year 175 0, on the laft day of July and firft of Auguft, the
* That. the parades of the atmofphere are more condenfed hear the poles, aryd
confbquently prefs more forcibly on bodies, than m the expanded and rarified.air of
hot climates, infemuchthat 1010 pounds of copper at Drontneim, weigh only jooplb,
ft Rouen, isdemonftrated and explained by J. Rohaylt, Traité de Phyfique, Tom. 11,
F . irit’jC, u-j. § 9. where he alfo thews, that the iherchiy rifes bister in Denmark,
and Sweden, than in' France and Italy.
2 heat
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heatosvas fo exeéffirve,|%at^M. Haaf, minifter of Waks, 'and formerly
chaplain in -fee Eaft Indies, dêéfertid he' hardly tiyèf 'féft
i t hotter in that comitty * tho’ I '&rtï(*incfined, partly\ to impute
this, to the much ftfbngértitiipfëffioji 'mSae’óiï' fee ifiindhy órefent
fenfations*"than by-fee reroffectibri .oirtlSy paft *.
The caufe of thde 'vidlraït fetós (which however are but of
feort duration) ihay be partly derived'ftdm^the .vdleysïnèloled within
high mountain's, where'fee rays bring' compféfied and confined,
the reverberatiomof thenyfrom sfe filÉfe^muft* dccafidii fuch heats,
as were the.fummer of any confifierkbfe Ifegfej would briugigrapes, J
and other fruits and 'vegetables, tp .the like -èxaujfite pef-fêétion as
in other countries. 'Xhe-fecond, and which is the chief -oaufe, il,
tfeitt-the xnidft of fiimmer, the fen’s abjfhnrehelpwfee horizpfi.,
is Jorniort that there is nOtnight, at leaft; no total datkiéfe; ©pb-
fequentiy neither. the atmoiphefe opr the mouisttains have time to
cool, .but often retain parTof thevheat df the preöedangtiayj and
if the gèneral opinion of natafeifts, feat & nri®a;al foil emits fmf-
phureous and hot effluvia, he trije, this may crime in for a tfuiaad
.caufe of thé heat, fee country being fflmoft 'every where fife of
I
cannot bé a more deceive proof of fee Ihramefe heat Early Kama.
^Pt Norway, than that feyéral Vegetablesy and paröcuMsiybariey,
grpws upland ripen within fix weeks 4a two Stoafes j wbiék,
héfides fee great profit, is jof .very confidefiaMe afeatïöge to fee
peaiapt, a^if. enables him to begin threfiting When hè wfii, which he
is often tinder a necèfflty' o f doiii|f very eafiy. ;tt'%; Md, that fee
fame happens,in Sweden within a . much feottfct lpaefc, namely,
36 days ^ but tibis T mention only on the authority of fee ririé-
brated Olaus Magnus, who has the following ^aïlagé cOtiferiiibg
it, “ Quoad Aquilonares hoc certum eft, in plerifijue agi*is Weft-
rogofeorum, parte objeria meridionali plagaa, liordeuiin ^mtio 36
dierum a femine pröje&o maturumcoHigij höCcff, afittëjuöii éd
medium Augufti, aliquando celerius'” f . It is ■ certain feat, where
•nature has but a feort time to work, fee accelerates her npeta-
* It appears, that in thé'cfeatr^slying far .rjirfh,, the.grq^t Jength the days
often renders it warmer than with ^s, WóliEïtófs Rhyfic. Parr. 11. Cha-p. viii.p.-m. '
Oh my vTOition in the year Q50, I faw at’ Iridwigeni ii-Nordfloidj barley
rhpe and mowed on|die"29thWJuly. Of the vegetables-^,the country J ïhali hereafter
fpeak more at large.
tions, i