.afe. few, as to the bell of my knowledge they, in moft places,
jacket lie. fallow; but are e$£ry tykkrplowed. jjSnajj fbvved, :,bear; <dJ
kindsi -of grain, bftrley and oats efpeeially,, and, rwt .only fix], eight,
and the. cornis general]yikfio\yefotjQ,‘be, lQnger, 'y,iid( the ears,fuller,
than wh^tiisf irnpefted from Denmark in^er
riof only:to the Englifb corn, which th& l^prwegkn^ prefer to any
other. I fhall foon corne, to treat-of every fort;pf grain^ynder- its
particular head, •■,,
■ As^Osthe caufe of ;this fcrtiEty, which tnay, appear, very flrange
to foreigners, tho’ it be ftri£tly[ftrue}i I l^all give them t}ie follow-
Caufeofthis ing indifputable account of it: The. Almighty Creator, fo, wife
fertllit7' and bountiful in his osconomy tqwards mankind, ^nd?whpfpgreat-
nefe spears, moft ca^icuoufly in the flender means he feegi^rtp
make ufesof, appears to confer a double ■bleifmgv onthofe fmall
parcels of good, land1 called clofes and fields,, which- in other parts
k e looked upon only as little inclolures, ’ anTkpar^d,foots'•
yet he:d^s. pot effect Ais; ^ a n y fiipernatural or immc^ ^ manner.
We know, that moifturc; and heat^are^thg vtyvp great promoters
of .fetiiity, and the-fields o£ Norway j^pyNa'/ufficjeneyo|
both -f*. They, are not liable; to fuch ffe^neptranSTong;prought§
as, other, countries, being fupplied either r ^ ^ ^ ^ i ^ p ^ g e n t l j
bluing from the mountains, or.themeltings,©ffojie mfoFes of ihow
on, the .tops of. the mountains. . Befides,. the fnow^w^er; a^-well as
the fnow itfelf, is, o f$ foch natjui^. fojaafoy.fiynfp ^
kind of manure. And when thg fieldsbegin. to:.jbffm rfih ^ .^hich..
is chiefly ill the, rallies, by the reflexion.of Ae fun» , they are more
eafily refrefhed by watering -thanl in othej cciuntfiesy.akt b^ing!.few*
and; of no §£pak^£nt„ In fome pqrts, particularly .Guldbrandf-
* Mr, Ericas Debcs, in kis account o f Fernoen p. <19.6; fa.yf,':.tkw, .a run o f .corw-
feed often yields twenty or thirty tuns of corn, yet is this in the main but a fmali
matter, amidft fuch a fcarcity of corn-rground,. and where few cani fow above a tya
or two.
- f ‘ ‘ Tanta eft fo.li. ccelique. fpecund itas i nterrupes.boreales, utfemina terra; eomnufla
I 'multiplici fcenofb; agricqlas; beent: In infulis Ferroerifibus; ex p fe i fe r d e i gfano,
. qninquaginta culmi cum totidem.dpicis excrefcunt' granis^urgidi,' pauckatem.terra
. N. B. uberi proventu refarciente nature. Non fatmlas narro. "Ijjfe culrncisf vidi e f
manibus hie palpavi.” A n d .in another palfage foon, after: t ‘ Ratio ;fertilita(tis ^borealis
ex niyibus repe'tehda'terram imprtegnantibus, e f ex;.felis' iadiis,'qui intefr'u'pes -
fortius .agunt. Et quanquam rupibus luperfrrata terra |ro|un'da‘ non fit, ea tamen
. reqipiendis fovendifque radicibusTrumenti'fafficiti. quoniaib ik'T^op'hraitffs docet,
Eib. t.dkCauf.'Planti'c, xxii. plures' qhMern -frym^mrn' Radices capefli^j !q<j non
alte defeendunt.” Th. Bartholin, A<£. Med. Hath. 'Vol.-i. p. 66! ' , J
"■ dale,
,d^le the peafants, which according.to Taverniery is alfo, pr^éfifed
in Perfia, have coptriveckWÜeduösf from ‘the upper grounds td
the, lower, Thefe atjU^tós^ are formed of hollowed timbers,
which-are notry em ^ n a # y e r, and are carried on from the neareft
. fboveis
;°yer ;fh|e field, after the manner uféd at i|a for wetting the fails,
tha,t they may-draw the fietfif aiid hold more wiM!-
As to the other principal" c^fëfoF this fertility, I'have, in thefirft Heat betwixt
chapter on the cl|mate, '{hewn, that' by the Comprelfibn'of the rays ttL“ 9“ "
of the fun,,', colfeded.. betwixt die mountains,, '"as, betwixt the^bfty '!
houfes in Copenhagen, thja-ffup.' .'is! extremely Tot,' or .rather fo in-
tenfè, r|that without the fummer breezes 'b l t^ ^ '^ o r p 5the
Teaj^doug.diC; creeks, whereby" this -heat, is" tempered,' ip womd* a f
all jhings, foe the molt pernicious*!» die ploughed land. J Hence M
our harveft is^as'forward, as'jheirs in .Denihark or Lower S^ony;
, though our feed-time.'be latefo yet the nights being fhort, tfie
ground repiains in- a cbntanh^ Jw^mfli," '^us the-'OTo^tb pi" dip :
jGorn advances without any check of intefmifiion, that within the
,foace of nine weeks thé "farmer Kas' Tóüfëd ^m sco r^ ^ o r the j
better,clearing and confirming this point,.I fliall fd down me'*
words, pf ^Gonfommatè Swe"4nh‘ naturalift,' the celebrated LinhEeus,
in his‘chffertatioh on the natural planting of Vegetables.'1 ‘^ T o i TraWaaions
wards ^thej pole the fiimmersJ ’ fhorter, and the' day?’^Jonger'. offal*
The fummer in France being longer than in Lapland, the ‘fruits “ “^Vo1' 1*
ripen fponer;.in Lapland ‘ than" in France. About Paris 'the.cpÖl
nigh'ts are longer," during, which die growth ‘ Beihg checked,'Htiiey [
^require 'the' longer time for .their' full'' maturity in; ta p - :
land, &e:|muher. having ;Tt|:le for fid. night,line fniits are in an
iminterrupted'progrefs. In 1732, for inftance, corn wasYown on
the 31ft of May, and in the barn by the 2§th of July,' having
attained its due ripenefs in 58 ’days.'* In the fame year rye was
Hkewife fownfon the 31ft of May,"' and cut the 5th of Auguft,
ripening in -66 days; this happened in Lulaa Lapland, whereas
further fouth there'was no fuch fprwardnefs.” ,
fob,V S 'E U"T, ■ III.
Agdci'dtHre i m .Norway, is p o t, fo( bhfden(qpi, tp, the, farmer as . *
in other parts; for h e r e d o e s not toil in the*fields of an oppref