io8
.Hops,
Flax and
hemp.
Grafs.
p p t r â & ;h i s t d -RYit&w-o r w n r,
which is celebrated for its wheat, procured feme from thence to
fow in his grounds, where he tells me, it anfwered both in quality
arid quantity'to’* the produce of Lolland.’ As to Buckwheat,
the lowing o f it here, appears too hazardous, both from the fhort-
nefs o f the fummers and the .night-frofts, particularly towards the
eaftj which this wheat cannot hand, being o f Oriental origin, in
„reïpedt of. die fouthern countries, and as fuch, is by the French
.erted:jB|é^SÉp.zitxs -:Æfâ!vfiv^,l fcmeKveisy.';gQod,'ofithis kind has
been"-produced in Hedemark, and even in thisrdiocefe,
™ E C T. ÏX.
Both the nprth and lbuth parts have hop-gaMens^, but the bell
• afp. thofe ofjHledemark and Sôllqer. ' î hayejO^teen p ty ^ o c fa l:
Sundmoer. Flax: ^ and hemp likewife. gfowA .g e ,J but fin^a very
fmall proportion to the demand foi them/? T h e weft'îidë,marti?
cularly, affords little or none 1; i p i y hère 'it w M be, weft vroMÉ
whüe-to e n c o u r e the fowing hemp, "Si: account of ,tl}e great
quantities ufed ini making- filhing-nets, '
From the corn-land, I proceed rto the'pafturages. dt meadows,
with which.Norway »Joy. liberally',b le ft,|a f not’ ohly;fti equal
other countries,: but to-forpafs 'maty. A® proof' o ffti^ ls^ th a t in
moll o f ’the provinces no -flefh, butter, uMefejiSfoi ’isfimp’0tted,
Except fpme bacon from Denmark, the good -lands being too;, valuable
to turn lwine into them ; whereas, every year from feyeral
parts, and chiefly Bergen; ihe?e is à very cohuflerable foreign eX-
.portation of thofe commodities, elpecially fuet and butter, T h e
-bell and- moft nutritive pafturages tare in Lofoden, Relierai, Vas,
Valdërs, Hallingdkl, Tellemark, and the lordfhip 'öfoNedenes.
T h e Norway-cows are hot indeed of the fize of thofe in Denmark,,
.anfl'a cpnfequencepf;this-is,' that feêyWoyield'’left milk ;
‘but astifr their fetnefs, thpfe -of the marih-lands excepted, Denmark
does riot afford better; and accordingly the farmers here keep
;a greater number o f cows. ~ T he bell dainties among, the Norway
-peafents contift in milk-meats; 'and variety <?f cheefes, on which
they
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.they fpread butter as on bread ;. betides which, they regale-them-
| felv.es witfo jDraule,, Myffehturn, Gummegroed, and other white
roeffes-.i,
How well the g Norway graft. agrees with, the Iheep, appears
from Mr. Berndfen’s book o f the fruitfulnefs o f Denmark and
Norway, where he fays, that it,is no uncommon thing for twenty-
four or. thirty-two pounds o f feet to be found in one ram ; and
it 4$ aiftrijcing inftance’ fuecjalency and inctyafe^pdhas been
pjeafed tofoeftow on the Nor\yayfgraft,- th'at atyejtyTjnall,v^fley|.
or dale,, fyftices fonthe, fevbraV^an^'Myç« andftheircatde j
k„Davigen^p^Nordfiord)',fo r inftance,. ^.is./anpt.s.ahpV'e half a Nqnÿay
tyil? ip circtiin|eBence, , ,yefe ,asiMe. George Krog/the minitier there
a^rmed^ito me,-it.Teeds, very dean two, hundred--,people, and
twelve . hundred cattle o f different. kinds'd'fo
It is however ,tovbe;,obfer.Vedv that in- the fpring the cattle, do
, ngt* graze* in the rallies an<^ on.the- Ikirts of. thePmouh tains'after
Syhitfanttde ; ' fon.wkéit the' feed time-is»qÿery,and the ipeople-can
;be' fpafed, they are driven otuthe tides ofriMm^^ilhs/'t^lSaâters ,>
ct^ntry phrafe $?, Iwhicfoat thatife&fon, afford
them^üffiöient. fodder, -thefnow being;no fooner .meltçd'than-.the
.gfafs appears,, atdeaft a Quarter otiari ell High, grown-under the
maffes- otifopw, tiom-which it derived-bofh Warmth Wtimoifture.
When, the-' diftarice is/ within- aNorw^y mile, / the milk isLbrought
home.twi^e«p day but if the/diftance be two mtylth^e^mil^
to toofe 'paftUres,* thèÿ/keèpi.iæïèfhoe^ôr-'-hub t'éli' the
||rins; Whirls mtfld^èrvant;^
^bnftantly h f ip for the fecurity-otithe cattle againft. wolves-, bears,
lytt-xes,-' a>Md- &t$er* wild bëàfts, tyfto generally ftyfrom fuefoa weak’
kiepen- -Sheds at the feme tirate employed- in ‘makingfou'iter'and
dheefe, with which fhe goes- down to the houfe -oncè/ör twice1 à
week/- Regulations - againft difputes apd quarrels* with neighbours
orSbofdererSj- concerning .this' general right oft common on the
mountains, arë laid- down in the Norway Statute-bobk f .
i r f t ^ ^ °rding I M .flefli.p^mF éaftera cattle, fed on
the'rtioüntains ife'th'e belt,*‘ beMes,‘ ,that/rJiifs' tKe i^fêîycounïfy'ls furnedHa üïe '
anqtbsi^çpnfider^ble benefit ir, tfiat .th^milVofxattlftthaSftfed W.fitîÀfattet-an'd
tweeter, as thé flefhi is-likewife riiore palatable and nutritive. Travels to the Levant
from, II:.-Ghaps^|||,ip*'giv- ■>? 1 «»w * ’ ' ’
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