N A T U R AL H ï ST OR i » f i WAŸ.
Sa (folida intra folida.) In the diftriét of Bvindvig, fix léagués-north
of Bergen, is a-place called Stenefùnd, where the tnoririt’âin, for
half a quarter of a league, abounds^'with fuch: petrified _bodies, as-
•are fought for in the cabinets of vertuofos; many kinds bfjCornua î
Hammonis, large and firiall fnàkés, mufcles, worms, infeéts*,. and
many others. This chrihot'be called a Lufus naturas, which ex-
pfeffipH, ‘ in this Tenfe;Mis:rather a Lulïfs' poeticus, and amounts
only to a paltry evafion, invented by perfons who'are difpofed to ■
_deny what is undeniable. All thefe figures appear' thèré"às if they
had'been impfefted into a pafte, or dough, and no' rational Jua- .
quirer can entertain any doubt, that the rock was as foft as'dbbgh, ’
or pafte, when firft thefe bodïès were intermixed’with ÉÊ I fhall
pais over many leffer examples or this' kind/“Jfii®WΧWtOlave’s-
ierjpferif ih/Nordal creek, which, as far^s/it^oncerns^^he faint,'is-
fabulous, the monks having made-ufe of it to attribute' to St. Olave
the miracle of erirountetlrig this huge ferperit, and throwing it up
againft'the place where it is now feeri ; 'but that it has hü'ng there-
i fince the - deluge, is' not 'incredible, Unlefs its5,difnelifibffs'
d f many fedKjms réndçr it fb; ^But this doubt-will likewife^anifti,*
when I come in order, ‘ to ipeakfdf the Northern fÉâ^rglb&s^ jafrd
other extraordinary fea-ânimals. In thtHqnaray' o f iriarble nhaf
Mufterhaun,,feven Norway W e s foüth óf Bergen;'ïn thdiSlfâcê'df
the rock', which ifas it vÿdre the WwàBrd'âtift ‘of the'lh^fbldfÖr’a
porous flime, called Dogftein, we‘IÉ fevetal fmàlF rmW^Mfesp
like thoiè obfervable in tallow, or in wàx; vtben. côrigeàhn g* after
fofion ; and that the wholejnafs of this quarr^together-^ith its
veins, were formerly in thht f f e t^ ^ p ë à r s 8* ^ frÉ’^ ^ iÉ lib n à b le
from the anfwer of one of the workmen, .when I afked hiiripif
he had. never met in, the marble with.fcmething elfe,b ofTome *
fiibftanfce which had the appearance of à different fdbftahce ’P'itó
anfwer was, “ This happens very leidom,* yetrboth myfelf, 'and
others of my trade, have fometimes met'- with. arid we-have
found in thé middle ;of bjtack-s of5marble, fnakes, mufejes, fand,
ftone, and. other fqch things, 'fo; inclofed In on all 'fides by the
marble, as if they belonged to it, although they, immediately
loofen and drop out as a foreign fubftançe. When this happens,
it is rifuaUy'followed by fuch a violent ftench,as over-powers us,-,
unlefs we turn immediatelÿ .afide from it.” Th,is laft circumftance
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