

NATURAL HISTORY of NORWAY. 43 



SECT. VII. 



A fort of almoft inviiible fmall Worms is brought hither in the smaii worms 

 Summer with a certain fog, called Haforje, becaufe the Weft- in ° gs 

 wind fets it in from the ocean. 



This Haforje is full of the aforefaid fmall Worms, which fall on 

 the trees, and all greens, and do a vaft deal of damage. 



When the honey-dew falls on the fruit or hops, then there 

 follows, and doubtlefs arifes from that, a fort of fmall Worms, 

 which do a vaft deal of mifchief alfo ; againft which the farmers 

 make ufe of the following remedy : they take one ant-hillock, or 

 more, and boil it in a tun of water, and fprinkle every green 

 thing with it that they want to fave. This honey-dew is a 

 kind of a flimy moifture, which dries by the fun's fudden heat, 

 and then appears in form of cobwebs ; and propably this is the 

 rife of a half fabulous account given in Ewerh. Happelii Mund. 

 Mirab. Tom. L L. II. c. vii. p. 91. in the following words. 

 " Prastorius in thefe words defcribes an uncommon rain, which HghGermafi 

 " fell Anno 1665. He fays in his New World, P. I. p. 245, 

 <c that advices came from Hamburgh of the 29 th of July, that 

 " a merchant had reported, for truth, the following facl:, which 

 " happened in Norway : i. e. There is a wood, which the day 

 " before was all green and beautiful, and the following day 

 " quite withered away, and the leaves were all covered with 

 f linnen, like muflin or gauze; of which the king of Denmark 

 " was prefented with 20 ells, and a merchant in Hamburgh had 

 " alfo had a piece in his hands. 



(i This we look'd upon as a mere fable at Leipzig, but fome 

 Ci infifted upon the facl:, the truth of it being vouch'd by feveral 

 " letters from Hamburgh ; yet it remained a kind of doubt, and 

 cc people did not know what to believe, till one account came 

 Ci in after the other, and cleared up all doubt of this fufpicious 

 " prodigy ; and finally, it was put upon footing of credit, by 

 " a confiderable burgher and merchant's having received a very 

 u full and particular account, in the beginning of Auguft, from 

 " his faithful friend, a lord of the manor there ; which I have 

 * read, and with aftonifhment; viz. from Tundern in Holftein; 

 " and wherein was ipecified, that at a place in Norway, for about 

 " a quarter of a mile round, there had fallen a kind of a web, 

 " which had covered the earth. It is almoft white, fays the ac- 

 count, and has the appearance of gauze ; the people in thole 

 " parts had made apparel of it, and drelfed themfelves in it. 

 \ Perhaps God has fent it to them as a warning, to make them 



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