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We have others that live upon the grafs and upon leaves ; alio 

 in frefli water : thefe are provided with a houfe, or fhell, which 

 is brown, ftriped, or black; they are very common. 



We have alfo the fait water Snail, which is partly fhaped like 

 a Snake, and a Craw-fifh ; likewife other forts belonging to the 

 lea, which fhall be treated of in their proper place. 



SECT. V. 



The Grafshoppers of Norway, Faare-Kyllinger, which the Grafsho PF ers; 

 Norvegians call alfo Siritzer and Grsefhopper, and fuch fmall and 

 common creatures, do not deferve here any particular remarks, as 

 nothing diftinguifhes them from the common kinds in other 

 countries. The fame may be faid of the Leach, called the Horfe- 

 Leach, the common Earth-worm or Dew-worm, and other large 

 and fmall Worms and Maggots, which are called here contrad'e 

 Mak or Mark. 



A fhort thick Worm, with fix feet, has the name of the Plow- Plow-worm. 

 worm, or Muld-Oxe, perhaps becaufe he knows how to plow the 

 ground j in the furrows of which the eggs are dug or plow'd up in 

 the Spring, and would produce an immenle quantity of Worms, 

 and afterwards of Flies, if God's providence had not appointed 

 the crows to watch, and given them a particular appetite to 

 devour them fo foon as they appear. 



At Hardanger there is a Worm that I have not heard of any Slow-worm; 

 where elfe ; it is called the Slow-worm, Skebe, perhaps becaufe it 

 moves but flowly; it is nearly half an ell long, and about as 

 thick as a finger ; the goats eat them eagerly, and they 

 don't hurt them. 



The Centipes 3 called Tufind-Been, or Skaal-Orm, is half acent; P e 3 . 

 finger's length, reddilh, with many fmall legs under the belly : 

 they live in ftables and cow-houfes, and are a pernicious creature 

 to the cattle, if they chance to fwallow them with their 

 provender. 



When this happens, the peafants take one of the fame kind 

 of Worms, pull of the head, and give it to the fick beaft, rolled 

 up in a bit of dough. 



SEC T. VI. 



The Clufter-worm, Drag-foe, or Orme-drag, is, as far as I clullerwonT1 ' 

 know, a creature peculiar to this country ; at leaft I have neither 

 feen or heard of them in Denmark. It is properly a congeries 

 of animals ; and confifts of an immenfe number of fmall Worms 

 gathered and extended for a great way along the earth, iuft like 

 ,- Part, II. M * ' J a rope 



