2o6 NATURAL HISTORY of NORWAY. 



from the town, is dug a kind of black colour, which, in appear- 

 ance, nearly refembles dried coals, and by fome has been intro- 

 duced for painting. 

 a fragrant Near Aalgaard in the parifh of Giefdal, in the above-men- 

 white loan. ^^ p rovincej { n t h e bottom of a little frefh fpring, is found a 

 kind of white loam, like Terra-figillata, and alfo very ductile ; 

 but the moft remarkable property is, its agreeable fmell like that 



of mufk. 

 Terra anti- I n the Epiftobe Ol. Wormii, particularly in the fecond part 717, 

 Scorbutica. .^ ^ ^^ ^ T g^j^j^ men tion is made of a kind of mineral- 

 earth beneficial againft the fcurvey, and found near Bergen ; but 

 the particular place is not fpecified, and all of whom I have en- 

 quired know nothing of it; which mews the utility of placing in 

 a permanent and confpicuous light what minute difcoveries are 

 gradually made in any part of natural philofophy. The words 

 of this learned perfon, in that place, are thefe : u Terra ilia anti- 

 fcorbutica, cujus mentionem facit catalogus, prope Bergas in Nor- 

 vegia reperitur % earn mihi attulit Fabricius Medicus Regius, qui 

 ait, ejus civitatis — Poliatrum, non fine fucceflu ad fudores in 

 fcorbuto movendos ea uti, drachma una in aqua appropriata: cum 

 effoditur, impura valde eft, radiculis et fabulo repleta : munda 

 lentorem et pinguedinem nullam habet, fed formam pulveris re- 

 fert, colore Turpethi-mineralis, ex mercurio confetti." 



a kind of black earth is found, of which the peafants make a very good dye for their 

 fluffs, which mews that it is likewife proper for painting, and might be ufed lnftead 

 of lamp-black. 



End of the First Part. 



