NATURAL HISTORY of NO R fF A T. ■ fJ j 



the Mediterranean, according to Gefner's account p 9 the 

 pickle and eat them, accounting them very delicate for the tabl/ 

 and m Nordland they eat them broil'd. 3 



The Negen Ogen, the Lamprey, otherwife called the Sreen- N o 

 fue, or Stone-fuck^r, is taken, according to Undalini's account " *"' ** 

 m Store Mios, and other frefh waters, particularly in the rivers 

 of Mandal and Undal, where they are found as thick as a man's 

 wnft, though but two feet long, but it is not look'd upon here (as - 

 in foreign countries) as a well-taftedj or even as an eatable Fifh. 

 (C Muraena ob venenofam qualitatem non immerlto fufpeda, quin & 

 mandentibus /ut refte Aldrovandus) fuis ariftis plurimum faftidii 

 par it ;? fays Willoughby, p. 1 04. They are often feen to jumo againft 

 the ftream like a Salmon, m order to get up the rivers, and with 

 their fharp teeth they will lay hold of the rock : hence this Fifh 

 has its Norvegian name, viz, Steen-fue. 



The Orte, or Oret, the Salmon-trout, Trutta Taurina, is caught o,«. 

 both in frefh and fait water, like the Salmon, and is of the fame 

 genus : it is much like the fmall Salmon, which we call here 

 Tart, excepting that' the head is thicker and fhorter, and the 

 body, near the tail, is broader, and of a dark colour / but it is 

 neither fo fat,. or well-tafted. It is caught in nets, and' generally 

 where the rivers empty themfelves into the fea * 



It is a very common Fifh in the fresh lakes and rivers but 

 many of them are fubjed to a fort of difeafe, fo that they cannot 

 be eaten. In that cafe their head grows very large, and the body 

 is emaciated ; and in their intrails there are found pimples re- 

 fembling millet-feeds. This diflemper is afcribed here to' the 

 faw-duft that hlh into the rivers, on which there are mills for 

 fawing timber. Others are of opinion that the roe, which is very 

 large m proportion to their fize, is corrupted, for want of be- 

 ing ejeaed in proper time, and occafions this diflemper : but 

 I cannot comprehend what should prevent them from doing it 

 unlefs it be the want of a convenient place, according to their 



m * It is furprizing, that on the top of the rock Varne-fet, and many other high places 

 in Haranger, they catch this Fifh in fmall ftagnant waters, or ponds, which, by their 

 high Situation, do not feem to have any communication with any other ponds or rivers 

 Can it be fuppofed. that thoie Fifh have been there fince the flood, or that birds of orev 

 have carried this fpawn, or young fry, up there? Or is it poffible that the Toe 

 mentioned in chap. 1. earned them up, and dropped them in thofe ponds; as the 

 heavy clouds are faid to take up Herrings out of the fea, and to drop them on the 

 rocks in Faroe ? If not, then one muft imagine that thofe waters, in fuch a highfta- 

 ion, by means of fubterraneanpaflages, have communication with other waters,! it is 

 to be concluded that the frefh water lake, Lille-mios, in Valders, has a communication 

 with the ocean becaufe they find Cod in it. Herman Rugge, minifter of Shre ob 

 ferves, the higher thofe pondsare in the rocks, the larger afdfttter are the FiS'thty ' 

 contain* / 



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