THE 



NATURAL HISTORY 



O F 



N O 



WAY: 



CONTAINING 



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

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

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

 Manner of Living of the Inhabitants : Interfperfed with Physiological 

 Notes from eminent Writers, and Tranfa&ions of Academies. 



PART II. 



Tranflated from the Danish Original of the 



Right Rev d . Erich Pontoppidan, 



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

 of Sciences at Copenhagen. 



Uluftrated with Copper Plates, and a General Map ofNoRWAY. 



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LONDON: 



Printed for A. Linde, Bookfeller to her Royal Highness the Princefs Dowage 

 of W a l e s, in Catherine -Street in the Strand. 



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