N P » R A L H « $ O R Y tâ & Ô 'R W M , 93
T . ' XIII. .
A t âny great diftaftcè» from the fea, -the rivers o f NorWay are tGreat advan-
not-navigable for vefiMs o f eonfiderable bürdeny for though hr '',aEers jjjjg
many places^ there-be a ’fufficient depth o f water, 'yet the watet^and fotw&e-
falls, fe’aufedfoy the intervening rocks and clifts, ate unfurmountable' timber? 1
6'bftaclesj thé-firéarïi precipitating itfelf fiOm-â'heighfcfoiîô'p 8, of
i-<ÿ fathoms,- ’évhêrë only toafts anrilfuch timber can be-floated down,
and- inariy ofÿîÜefe’ ’arè'detffrôyed;' yétptlie gifeafefr part get fafely
through, ràhd 'being marked by their owners, arc fecured at the- See plate vtÛ
Lentzes. Thefe aré large booms, fortified with iron bolts, and1
laid aérofs lèverai parts 6f thë.-riyer» for Hopping the timber. < The
breaking co f a Lentz is o f firch ill« conlequencCy tp'-the timber^
merchants, that in leh sm accident ’which- happfen’d by an
inundation o f thë -Gfemhien, ôeéafioned many bankruptcies among
them *: As thefe ând other rivers perform the capital fervice o f
conveying ffomr the3_înoUÉtains and fo thôfe'foàfts and timbcrsj
which without filch*ceüvéy^nte woidd bé âblSnM y'
relpeét to commerce,: fr b y their lèverai waterfalls 'ïheÿ''à#é o f k
further utility, in driving fëvêial hundred faw-naills, whetc, with
little labour, planks ; ^Sd boards arè fâwéd to all ditnénfièns. g -
c ,x. xiy,
force o f rivers in fiMneomountaiïious countries, where JV ^ J l
th e fall' from lofty rocks-redoubles the motion ô f the; y^afer<fro^;;%;V"; v
limy in fdrfië meafere bè tonceivêâ from what I have already re^Pdvers • r
lated o f the fildcfcri fobterraneous courfe o f tfiê river-Gùte, and the
inundation oeCafioned hy the fubfequent eruption. -But-iiollial-
here add another inflance o f this kind ftill morewoneterfcl, which,^
according to the authentic account from whence tt Is taken, hap-'
péned in the year 1702. I mean the hidden înSftîefficift o f the fa^!
xriily feat o f Borge near Friderickftad into à deep âbyls. »The particulars
o f this unhappy and lmgular àccid:éht fo ^ : te' rèad in.thfi;
{ fiova Eteraria maris baltici ad ann. 170-5. maj. p, » 3,, where is. annexed
a draught o f the fituation o f the place. In the mght o f the
* T h k fyearly change of fucKfa Lentze ôr Bô'dm,'^tnay»^^®SrQe!*paces amount to
three or four 'hundred Rix Dollars, but in return ^ it yields to the owner no lefs. than
a thoufarid or eleven hundred, for at leaft thirty thoufand' dozeu of large .pieces o£
timber pafs through it, of which each mah.es hx' ofhignt ptaEks. " a
2 ' H H Hi ■'-.fifth