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 i&> NATURAL HISTORY of NOR WA T. 



dry'd. Roskiser Cod is flit up the back, and then dry'd. Rund- 

 fisk, or Round-fifh, is that which we commonly call Stock -fifh: 

 this is dry'd without flitting. The Klip-nfh is flit like the 

 Roskier, and is dry'd by fpreading it on the cliffs, from whence 

 it has its name. The goodnefs of thefe feveral forts depends 

 chiefly upon the weather in which they are cur'd ; for if it does 

 not happen to be dry enough for the Fifh to be thoroughly pe- 

 netrated by the wind and cold, they are apt to look red, parti- 

 cularly near the bones. Hence the Nordland Round-fifh is reck- 

 oned the beft, becaufe the cold being more intenfe there, pene- 

 trates them fooner than in other places. In the Baltic we fell 

 moft fait Cod, but at Hamburgh, Bremen, and Amfterdam, the 

 dry ; from whence they are carried up the rivers all over Ger- 

 many. Some are exported to Flanders and England, but not fo 

 many as to Italy, Spain, and other countries in the Mediterra- 

 nean. As for the French, they trade themfelves in this branch, 

 fince their fifheries in North America have been brought into a 

 good condition. The Fifh are fo well cured there, that in moft 

 markets they give them the preference to ours : but our good 

 Norwegians, who have been longer ufed to it, ought certainly to 

 equal, if not excel them, in this particular ; or, at leaft, they might 

 follow their method. If this be too difficult a task, were they 

 to fend fome people thither to learn the art, it would be very 

 well worth while. To travel, in order to make improvements in 

 trade and commerce, would be more laudable in our young men 

 of fortune, than any other end they can propofe to themfelves in 

 vifiting foreign countries. 



cods roe. Notwithstanding this, the French cannot do without the fpa wn 



of our Norway Cods, which they ufe by way of bait, to ftrew 

 in the fea when they catch what they call Sardeller, a fort of 

 Fifh fomething like our Herrings. For that purpole feveral thou- 

 fand calks of cods roe are falted down every year in Norway. 

 Within thefe twenty years particularly, the demand has been fb 

 great in France, that we have exported thither annually four- 

 teen or fixteen fhip-loads of roes only, befides a fmall quantity 

 which they carry in their own bottoms. 



Trajn-oii of From the liver of the cod there are extracted feveral thoufand 

 cafks of good train-oil ®. Befides all this, we ufe the long air 

 or fwimming b adder, which lies along the Cod's back-bone. This 



* Our peafants do not melt it down, but throw it into a veffel, and fo let it diffolve 

 of itfelf. The oil extracted from Cod only (not reckoning that from other fat Fifh, 

 as the Sselhunde, Springere, and Marfviin) exported from Bergen annually, amounts 

 to 7000 cafks, and fometimes more. We reckon generally that 200 Cods yield a cafk 

 of train-oil. 



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