NATURAL HISTORY of N RWAT, 



cherries, makes pleafant and cooling liquor. Ribs, i. e. currants, 

 red and white, which are here called vinbar, i. e. wine-berries; 

 foelbar, fun-berries; hindbar, rafpberries; likewife red and white 

 flickklefbar, Goofberries ; brambar, blackberries; biornebar, bar- 

 berries ; hyben, a kind of berries, which alfo are here called clun- 

 ger ; blaabar, bilburnes ; and a large fort of them called blaakbar, 

 or krakebaer, cranberries, and efpecially the wholfom and deli- 

 cious jordbser, flrawberries ; of which there is great plenty, befides 

 many other kinds of fuch berries as are hardly to be met with in 

 any other country than Sweden and Norway: The flrft of thefe 

 is oexel or afaldbsr, of which a farther account mall be given in 

 the article of trees; tegebar or teyebar, by Lockftor called wx- 

 norweg, growing on long ftalks which run along the ground, and 

 hanging at the end of them in bunches like grapes; the leaves are 

 like thofe of the cherry-tree, the bloffom white, fmall and coni- 

 cal, the berries in appearance like currants, but far furpailing 

 them in tafte * 



Tranebaer, myrtillus repens, likewife grow on long fmall Items, 

 fpreading themfelves^ along the ground; the berries are red and 

 four, and, like the floe, do not ripen till winter, or rather the 

 fpring, when on removing the fnow, I have gathered them on the 

 mountain Filefleld in their perfedion, yet did not find in them 

 that high flavor which the rein-deer feem to enjoy in eating 

 them, and perhaps it is for their refrefhment that the God of na- 

 ture may have particularly intended them. 



Crakebaer grows upon a fpinous ftem of a middling height, 

 not unlike the juniper-berries ; the fruit has fome affinity with the 



fJ2 n , ?v hief f T^'^ST 5 k ^? Cdled ginfen §' which from the defection and 

 figure of it m father duHalde, Defcript. de la Chine, t. ii. p. l8a . feems ; perfedUy 

 to correfpond with the Norway teyob^r, though it is not the berries but the root 

 which die Chinefe efteem fo rare and valuable, that it is fold by weight againfl filver' 

 it is umver ally u fed by the phyficians of that country, as a medicine for the Zt[[ 

 men who alone are able to pay for it, and one of the emperors fent a body of ten 

 thoufand Tartars into the woods only to gather ginfeng. L'Empereur avoir donS 

 ordre a dix mille Tartares, d'aller ramaffer tout ce qu'Tls pourroient du *i n feno 1 

 condition que cnacun d'eux en donneroit a fa majefte deux onces du meilleur etUue 

 ie refte fercit paye au poids d'argent fin. 4 - 



a rn^fr I irtUe f ? f 'If r ° 0t are in th£ higheft degree 0f efteem ' a deco ^°n of it bein* 

 1 T.u if refto k rat1 ^ ^gorating the faculties, diffipating humours, imparting 



clfZZ°r n T tQ thC bl0 ° d ' ftre , ngthenmg th£ lungS ' Panting naufea , iWtfe 

 ening the ceiaphagus recovering the appetite, diffipating fumes and preventing verti- 

 go s: Now whether fo many valuable properties can ceSter in the tegebar, I gave to 

 the mvefhgations and experiments of the faculty. 6 



bilberries, 



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