NATURAL HISTORY of NORWAY. 47 



In the fame diftrid: fouthward is the noted mountain of Torghat- T . he moun - 



tain of Torg- 



ten, fo called from the likenefs of its top to a man's head with hatten - 



r 1 • See plate in. 



the hat on, under which appears a fingle eye, which is formed 

 by an aperture, paffable throughout, an hundred and fifty ells 

 in height, and three thoufand in length, thro' which the fun 

 may be feen ; it likewife affords a coarfe kind of agate, 

 but which will admit of a polifh. On the top of this mountain 

 is a piece of water, or a refervoir, of the dimenfions of a moderate 

 fifn-pond. The rain-water, which gathers there, trickles down 

 the mountain thro' mTures and cracks on its fide. In the lower 

 part of this mountain is alfo a cave, full of rugged windings. A 

 line of four hundred fathom, being tried out of curiofity, to mea- 

 fure this hiatus, did not reach the bottom ; and it was thought 

 too dangerous to proceed further, 



SECT. VL 



Such fecret paffages, and wonderful caverns in the mountains, Deep and 



are far from being uncommon here. At Herroe in Sundmoer, IXsTwere 



I heard much talk, from the common people, of a cavern called [ n C fon paffages 



omemoun- 



Dolfteen, and, as they are apt to magnify all fuch things by their jSeTontL" 

 own imaginations, they conceit that it reaches under the fea, all orisinofthem ' 

 along to Scotland. I defired the two minifters of the place per- 

 fonally to inform themfelves of the nature of it, and they accord- 

 ingly fent me the following written account. 



" Purfuant to our promife of taking a view of the cavern in Cavem in 

 the mountain of Dolfken, we went thither on the 16th of July D ° Uleen * 

 1750; its entrance was the height of a full-grown man, and it is 

 two fathoms in breadth; but we immediately found it to in- 

 creafe in both dimenfions, even higher and wider than Herroe 

 church. The fides were perpendicular, like the wall of a houfe, 

 ■fifing into a kind of vaulted roof. It ftretched itfelf S. W. and 

 N. E. till about the middle, where we met with a defcent like 

 the fleps of flairs, and there it inclines more to the eafl, but this 

 defle&ion is not above three or four fathom long, when it again 

 falls into its north-eaft direclion. On each fide, at the bottom of 

 thefe fteps, was as it were a bank of clay, on which we refted our- 

 felves, and at the end of thefe banks, likewife on each fide, was 

 a kind of door with an oval top, but upon viewing it with our 



Part L O lights, 



