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r752, were exported, from Bergen alone, eleven thoufand and thirteen lafts ; and 
it was expected that as many more would be fhipped off before the expiration of 
the year. The Herrings which vifit this coaft are only part of the vaft northern 
army which annually quits the great deeps, and gives wealth and food to numbers 
of European-nations. 
Tue Cod yields-another fithery of great profit. They firft arrive immediate] y 
after the earlieft Herrings, and grow fo pampered with their fry, that they reject a 
bait; and are taken in vaft nets, which are fet down in fifty or feventy fathom 
water, and'taken up every twenty-four hours, with four or five hundred great fifh 
entangled inthem. As the Herrings retire, the Cod grows hungry ; and after that 
is taken with hook and line, baited with Herring. In:more advanced feafon, other 
varieties of Cod arrive, and are taken, in common with Turbot and other fith, with 
long lines, to which two hundred fhort lines with hooks are faftened : the whole is 
funk to the bottom ; its place is marked by a buoy faftened to it by another line of 
fit length. The extent of the Cod-fifhery may be judged of on hearing that 
40,000 tonder, of four bufhels each, of French and Spani/h falt, are annually im- 
ported into Bergen for that purpofe only. 
The Ling is taken on the great fand-bank during fummer, by hook and line,- 
and, being a fifh noted for. being capable of long prefervation, is much fought after 
for diftant voyages. 
The Salmon,.a moft univerfal northern fifh, arrive in the Norwegian rivers, and 
vaft quanties are fent, fmoke-dried or pickled, into various countries. 
The prefecture of Nordland, is the fartheft part of the kingdom of Norway. In 
it is the diftrict of Helgeland, remarkable for that uncommon genius, Oé¢her,. or 
Qhthere, who, in a frozen climate, and fo early as the ninth century, did 
fhew a paffion for difcovery, equal perhaps with that of the prefent. His country 
was at that. time the laft in the north which had the left tin@ure of humanity. 
In the year 890 he was attracted by the fame of our renowned ALFRED. He vifited 
his court, and related to him his voyages. He told the monarch that he was deter= 
mined to prove if there was any land beyond the deferts which bounded his country. 
It appears that.he failed due north, and left, on his ftarboard fide, a wafte, the pre- 
fent Finmark, occafionally frequented by the Finnas, or wandering Laplanders, for 
the fake of fifhing and fowling. He went as far as the Whale-fy/hers ufually ven- 
tured: a proof that the men of Norway practifed that fifhery.many centuries before 
the Englifh. He doubled the North Cape, and entered the Cwen Sea, or White Sea, and 
even anchored in the mouth of the Dwina. He was to thefe parts what Columbus: 
was to America: but the knowlege of this country was loft for centuries after the 
days of Ofher. He mentioned the Seride Finnas, who lived to the north-weft of 
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