NATURAL HISTORY of NORWAY. 113 



Pfalm lxxiii. ver. 22. and 26. After this they mutually encou- 

 raged each other in the hope of eternal felicity, to patience, and 

 perfeverance in faith, jointly recommending themfelves to God, 

 and totally defpairing of all temporal relief, fince the above-men- 

 tioned herb had failed them. But in the night between the twelfth 

 and thirteenth day of their famine, being the eighteenth day of 

 Auguft, their hearts were revived, by the found of horfes galloping 

 up the mountains; upon which they called out, and being heard, 

 the riders flew to their ailiflance, and putting off in their boat, 

 which, as another inftance of God's paternal care, had received 

 no damage, brought them afhore. Food being offered to them 

 the elder brother could eat very little of it, and the little he di4 

 eat, threw him into fuch a diforder, as after his return home con* 

 fined him eight days to his bed; however, he furvived it thirty- 

 feven years. The younger brother found himfelf lefs incom- 

 moded, and in the year 1691 drew up this relation, particularly 

 thanking God, that their dog, the fubordinate means of their 

 deliverance, had not fwam over to them when they called, and 

 made all the figns imaginable, with a view of killing him for 

 their fuftenance. I beg pardon for this digreflion, and reft the 

 truth of the fad upon the authority of the party himfelf. 



SECT. XL 



After thus treating of grain and grafs, the chief fuflenance of An kinds Qf 



,-. -It v 1 efculent and 



men and other, animals; the culinary and garden vegetables are § ardcn ve s e - 

 the next in order for our confederation. The common people 

 here, and efpecially in the country, have very little tafte for thefe, 

 and even the towns and cities ufed to be fupplied from England 

 and Holland with cabbage, leeks, and other roots. But in this 

 century, efpecially within thefe forty years, a foreign fupply is be- 

 come lefs neceffary, as gardening grows more into vogue, for 

 which the country is partly indebted, to a very ufeful little piece, 

 intitled, The Norway Horticulture, published at Drontheim, by 

 Chriftian Gartner; and a happy experience has fhewn, that all 

 kinds of efculent vegetables thrive in our gardens; they produce 

 cabbage of all kinds and colours, green, white, or red, likewife 

 green peas, common and french beans, afparagus, artichoaks, 

 melons, cucumbers, garlic, parfley, fellary, marjoram, thyme, 



fage, 



