

THE 



NATURAL HISTORY 



O F 



NORWAY: 



CONTAINING, 



A particular and accurate Account of the Temperature of the Air, the 

 different Soils, Waters, Vegetables, Metals, Minerals, Stones, Beafts, 

 Birds, and Fifties; together with the Difpofitions, Cuftoms, and 

 Manner of Living of the Inhabitants : Interfperfed with Phyfiological 

 Notes from eminent Writers, and Tranfactions of Academies. 



In TWO PARTS. 



Tranflated from the Danish Original of the 



Right Rev d . Erich Pontoppidan^ 



Bifhop of Bergen in Norway, and Member of the Royal Academy 

 of Sciences at Copenhagen. 



Illuftrated with CopperPlates, and a General Map of No r w a y. 



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LONDON: 



Printed for A. Linde, Bookfeller to Her Royal Highness the Princefs Dowager 

 of Wales, in Catherine-Street in the Strand, 



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