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Wbolfom
and palate-
able berries.
N A T U R A L H I S T O R Y -of N O R W A Î .1
has much of the appearance of Angelica. - , The Bears ;are /aid to
be extremely fond of. it, and when by excefîès in eating of it:,-
they contract an oppilation, they feek for’relief from. thé(fiefhüf
animals. ; Mariahaand and Fandenfhaand, i. e. Devils-liand,,;are, t>vo
roots fomewhat refembling a hand with five fingers, but diftih-*
guiftied by their colour; the laft is black and'u t h e firft
white, and good for fore heads, and other eruptions in children,.
I fliall clpfo this {ufcjoéb of- the plants in Norway, and .their fi-.
milarity with the plants, in other mountainous' counties, .vyith the
following paflage from the celebrated Tipneus,. “ thofe mountains
which reach the upper region of - the air, and the furface: whereof
are continually covered with fnow, produce their, peculiar plants,
of which the Alps in Switzerland, in "\Yalèsr the Pirenees, .the
Olympus, Baldus, and Arrarat, are inftances, not .growing *
in. lower fituations ; as myy ^êdèqn in Flor. Lappon. ^he-plants
are no where fo expofed to. ftrong concyifliqns' of the* wind, as
the mountains, by which thej growth and -maturity | of ,thefis is
confiderahly accelerated. This.is an expedient ofinature rt^upply
the ffiortnefs of the fommer. t Tournefort, in his-lézardons afeent,
to the top-of mount Artarat, at the foot of it, met,with the-fame
vegetables, which he had found all over* Armenia ; a little higher
he found lèverai which had not- occurrecb to Jiim- fince fris, departure
from France; in his further progrefs, he found, epnyfa .eoerulca
acris, cotoneafter folio rotundo, hieradurn fiptiçolùm.mgulhfoliuni
majus, jacobea fenecionis folio rag. euphraiia vulgaris, ,and*others
which are common in Sweden; but on the fummit, he found the.
very lame plants which are produced on he mountains of Swify.fr—
land, and Lapland.” The plants which ate- defprifrqd. by-G^fal-.
pin, Tournefort, Columna, and Pontedera, as growing on the Idler
hills of Italy, abound in every meadow with us, all which proceeds
from the air, and the altitude of thé foil, f
S' E O T. ID.
A great variety of wholfom and well-tafted berries are to be
found in /Norway; firft? here ate,’as in Denmark, and other
places, cherries of lèverai kinds, of which, particularly the peasants
in Sognefiord, and Hardanger, fell great quantities dried. Hage-
bar, probably a kind óf floes, an infufion of which in wine, like
. cherries,
-NA. Tt¥ R A L -H.I gffc O R Y toft N O R W A T.
atad'poqlihg. Jiquor. ,'Ribs, i. e. currants;
red and white, which are here called vinbar, i. e. wine-berries;
hirtdbar, rafpberries;i;frkewife red ,and white
ftiekklelbar, Gbofberries; brambar, blackberries; biornebar, bar-
B^r^tes; hyben, y kind-.of berries,, winch alio are,-here, called chin-
g?b hil ^urnes;; ^anc^g large f fort of them called blaakbar,
2%d,_ especially the whollbm | and deli—
j^pdbasr, pfiwhich there is great plenty, befides
myny other kinds. of^fi^h^berries a&4re Hardly to be met with in
Ipiy^ther country than Sweden{kadj^qm^:.. The' firft of thefe
°f_whiefr^fr^therj account (ball jBe^yen^in
°&^gf^fittegqbar or ifeyebar, by-Lockftor called uv^-
nofweg, growing ondofig, ftalks vfhich'run afong'the; ground, and
hangihg jft/he end jof them in bunches‘like grapes; the leaves are
bk^'J^o|h^f5llfc ^^ryj-t-rqe^.;the,< bfoflbm; white, final! and coni-
c^,-gt|he0 herpes/in appearance like currants;, but far furpafling
them in ta&e f. a - - ’ ' r j °
‘^Tranfebmr, rnyrtlllus' repens, likbwife grow dn long final! ftems,
fpreading^jdiep&lyds along the/ground; the berries are. red and
four,, and,, like the, flqe* do hot, ripen tail winter, or father the
fpring, whtti on -remov-fog-the fnoW;T have gathered them on the
rpquntaiu FilefifeM.m their-perfection, yet did not find in them
Jfr©vX3^^ eating
• m’ ^ Perhaps ibis for their refrelhnaent that the G©d of nature
may; have particularly intended them.
| : c rakeb#=; grpws, upon acinous'ftem of a middling height
not/uplike/he jutUperrberriesi; die. fruit has.fome affinity with the
■ w h i r ? ° n W1, Æ6 N?rway tey0bær’ thouSh it I which the Chinefe efteem fo rare and Valuable, that it is nfootl dthe berrie/bilt t h è S
Ü t'nivetfdly ufed-b.y die phyfmans .of that .country, as a medicine for th e r e a t
S o Û f a Ï r ^ aref bl\ t ° pay for it, and one <>f the’ emperors fent a A f f
t j ,T w ^ into the woods only to gather.ginfeng: L'Empereur ayok dbnné
cohdirin dlX mf e Ta^vres’ d aller ramalfer tout ce qu’ils pourroient du ginfeno- à
Je rate leroit paye au poids d’argent fin m. .e..i. lleu; r/ ef'q1ue
a. S Z n T j I f e r°oi arc in h higheft degree óf efteem, a decoftion of it beins
a W r f S I W reftorative, * 1 11 L . W i
Jiegii^r motion to the blood,, ffijengtliening die lungs, prevendno- naufeaL-ftS^S?
die in v e Z T h dlerh° man^ ^ai'uable properties can center in the tegebar, I-leave to
tne lnvelhgations and experiments-of the faculty. ' f e . 9 ’ ve to
bilberries,