CHAPTER XIV. 
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 
1753. ErtcH PoNnTroppIDAN (BISHOP OF BERGEN). 
Bishop Pontoppidan, a Danish prelate, born in 1698, 
claims a distinguished position as the author of a Natural 
History of Norway, best known in England by the translation 
“THE GANNET.” 
published in 1755. In this fine old work, twenty-two folio 
pages are devoted to a really very good description of the 
birds of Norway, with figures which are easily recognisable 
of twelve of them.* 
There is a rather full account of the Gannet, ‘‘ The 
Hav-Sule [7.e., Sea-Sule, or Solan] a large sea-bird, which 
somewhat resembles a Goose,’ accompanied by a somewhat 
imaginative figure, with a comb on its head, which cannot be 
due to a defect in the block, as it is stated in the text to be red. 
* «The Natural History of Norway, in Two Parts, translated from the 
Danish Original,” Vol, II., chap, iii. and iv. 
