U S t i r a l h H l R m o# J p | r 'w M t .
being on account: öf |||| lléiefsIaloré éürable -than teffÖ leï^ëöil.
In Nordfiord and elfewhere, a very valuable-juniper-oil* isfextradled
f e p :dïè #latl 'and'fOSïêrim&’e^bft^
'®fö^svmadd'èif ;biltS;n®f*to#ëcitiëflfly fio'wii aè* hlrelS-
' fèfö^ '
® f !wfflfeiyves -ffiakéahd trJSi
b 'l^ P tHe leaft inoöon.3 ’'Tbfetföigs- are, like thofeFöf tBer bitch
abo aldèr'%dë/%i(v® to titö J^^#feyti-^Éè3ïiï-
-foddëfds' fëarcél *» Tbis Tfoe^ wbicK iri‘ötlffidïèl|3eCT#'fs
aöd «tendëfy^rS$fes°tribe‘ dlMöft; fficÖifu|l®Kl'fflctfe W&foFW'frti-
inid grouftd,* :wben it is:d4id *dó\vn ’\^tb6uïi5bèinguïbrippbd
tórk^ arid is tHëfefore ntuctrufed? for Water^p^elt^idcg5ti:ei,s iïn-
déïgfèmcRr^
Fyr, or as it is here called ifure, ’ the’' fo-^éë/hFaf’ ^ b ^ ts y 'th e
red and hard fid, which 'grows 'üpon the mountain^,-1 and contains
the grèatëft qbantiritesof refrn; a'kPthe tvhitifo'fo%,«^hich°^rèws
quicker in'lowland moift ^üftHs/'but is*8f,ïhucri Kil vMe,4o^y
fitting hnly bF the bare timber. ^Theift^treeih','y&tdrilJr wMch
grovys ialmqft «very 'where iri' Noriiwijr,* Is %fe frfdhélF
thfe i foSfc
witKiir cörripafs aiitl from’thè ftrongett aftufon8e? fol$3^’ a million
of ffedollars; eipecially if wé ‘include ^e^diian1:¥gLs:%?:\h ^fiaW-
inills, and the mails, fome of which aÜe’ fóld' ffonP^e^hdffifrèd
to twh hundred 'rixdóllars éneK *. Thefe trbés, feicénf e g
on thé rnouritaihs, fromwheneeThey't ib?ëiljly remofef,.
af ë nbwfélêofo fo i le d ' to-‘grow fo large a s 'Ö ’forèlër'J^3,,.öjF
which wc have the ftrongeft ‘ evidence' in mod^rdWotifês;: forfa
peafant’s apartment, which heretofore
ftieks óf* fir-ttees'-laid tipon èach-other, •■ réBhireS' hofe
févéii or eight. The richnefs-oF the' fap'óh the tedJ'ïif-tree may
be Gonëhidêd, among other 'argumerits,1 from thp age .of fome of
our Norway-pëafahts houfes,j W ^ h ’^ -fo p p o ièk aiid ; 0 e% ^ § r
four hundfo'd-years-ftanding, if h o t more. W e S ||^ 4 ^ ? i a ^ ||i
Jon. Ramus’s hiftory 'in the Tai-forif
,or
h u n ^ a ^M weiity rixMlara, cfeifot, 'after- fofe down. thé-lear
P°Jps*ftkFs t*1“ do;ubie ,tKe;prh|;'eteflSfor lieft'des the.rffahy ’oilier. trees it req-uirós
tofOTOT a kind of bed: forf t ’RTflöh: fópön’,' left it ffioulcl be'tnm id ©lews bWtha fdeks-
lometirheS'an hdhdrfed trees'll Upwards muft-beM’d to' make a way for it' add la’
borers are employed to hawl it iiï ‘Is . '
Guld-
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Guldbr^nldale,' the hoUfe is' ftill fobfitting, in which king Olu f
lodged jfive nights in the -year. iü2;'2;y r above fevep, - hundred years
ago, ïyhen he took “a êirçtiit; round the kingdom to convert the
peogfo to the çhrittiah religion.' From .the rootsj;,of ;the fir-trees
the,peafants burn tarP Jeyen|(an,hifndredyears-after-the trunk has
been cut j down. This taris A .very .profitable cpmmodity, and fo
excellent in its kind, ;that bifiapp .Berkley, in :his treatife qn the
vjrtpeSvQf tarrtyater,;recommends- the Nofway-tar, tn.preferepce tp
any -other. ?A p eminent' merohank in this p]#c&has attured me^
that the -difpenfarie's in London apply tôshim .ypâiçly-by letters -for
forty calks o f tar, the prpducp o f I^ordfiord, which ®| o f a more
reddilh colour than any other. In like manner the fir-trees from
Norway and Sweden are in mtfeh- higher efteem,' tfom trees-of the
fame\name- and; appearance in the warmer countries, ,in ,Spain,
f pi11 Tpfoany, in Dalmatia, and other
countries on the Mediterranean,- which'mayTind,eed.content phem-
felves with tfieir qym for wanp o f better^ but\ould* not fell them
i|. their pwn»-ports, i f ’arNofway^man fooùld 'imjpôrt'a. c^go o f
:S p ? i \ Ç P # Ja f e S ^ ^ ^ n t ï '
. England.,^nd other parts,; but the difference of foil ancL climate
will not. foffer nheytrees- to equal thofe of Noryvay. j fo refpe'a to
the foil, it is not the good, rich and black earth, tfoit favp.urs this
^ nRfi4°,9lS-}lTfoil} ; but rather the graye%,;fandy^ pr-moorilh
lapds. ^ The method of, foyving other trees will'not. fecceed with
IBs, . It fOhufesyeo grow independent, and to Fow itfdf- at 'plea- •
%Fe* method, therefore1 is to hang up here and there"
on,a pole e«$®ifor. the purpofe, fome of the ripeft pine, apples^
by .which the fmall fobttt feed.;which,iies concealed between the
knots, .may .be thrown out by. thp motion of.the windj'ahff ^ o p
wherever that carries it. ^ fo the Fens, the marrow or refin of the
fir-tree is naturally transformed into an incenfe, which’" may be
called the Norway-frankincenfe, ,and‘ is .found in the, fenny
grpunds. The buds or pine-apples of-the fir-tree, boiled in ftale
beer, make an excellent medicine for the feurvy^ and not lb un-
pleàfant to the palate, as the. tar-water, tho’ ip of the fame
kind. In Sundmoer, and perhaps m: other parts, Tome.branches
grow upon a; certain fpeeies of fir-trpes, which appear, quitemonr
ftrous and ftrange in çomparifon with the reft, for-they are. not
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