INDEX. 



Bees, Beer, don't breed in Norway, II. 47. 

 Beetles, SkarnbafTer, II. 48. 

 Berggylte, the Rock-fifh, II. 109. 

 Bergen, City of, in no danger of a land- 

 force, I. 63. Fortified with two caftles, 

 ibid. The moft unhealthful fpot in Nor- 

 way, II. 261. 

 Bergrap, an extraordinary natural accident 



deforibed, I. 60, 61. 

 Berg-ugle, a fmall bird, II. 68. 

 Berries, wholefome and palatable in Nor- 

 way, I. 132, & feqq. Many forts peculiar 

 to that country, 133. 

 Biellands-Broe, a famous bridge, being 

 the moft curious piece of architecture in 

 Norway, II. 134. A high cafcade near it, 

 ibid. 

 Birds, an alphabetical lift of thofe of Nor- 

 way, in the Norwegian language, whether 

 land, fea or ihore birds, II. 57. 

 Birk.e-.dahl, a fen in Norway that has a 



ftrong petrifying quality, I. 89. 

 Blaas-kaal, the blue fifh, EK 109. 

 Black-death, an epidemical diftemper, 1. 24* 

 Black-loam like Indian ink found in Nor- 

 way, I. 205. 

 Blankensteen, a fea fifh, II. 109. 

 Bleck-sprutta, Sepia, the Ink-fifh or fea 

 gnat, II. 177. Defcribed, ibid. & 178. 

 Its uncommon fhape and qualities, 179. 

 Bleege, the Bleak, II. 109. 

 Blue colour found in Norway, I. 205. 

 Bog-finke, or Brambling a fmall bird, II. 68. 

 Bones mollified, I. 128, 129. 

 Bottom of the fea full of inequalities, I. 67. 

 Bouget and Comandine, Meffieurs, their ob- 

 fervations on a mountain in Peru, I. 26. 

 Note. 

 Boyle, Mr. Robert : his inftructions for tra- 

 velling with advantage, I. 28. Note. 

 Brasen, the Bream, Brama, II. 109. 

 Bread, generally made of Oats in Norway, 

 II. 268. Made of the bark of the fir-tree 

 in time of fcarcity, ibid. 

 Bridges, not ftrongly built in Norway, I. 

 58, gg. Many of a furprifing conftruclion 

 there, 95 A Bridge of 1000 paces long at 

 Sunde, ibid. 

 Brigde, a large fifh of the whale or porpoife 



kind, II. 109. 

 Brisling, Encraficholus, the Anchovy, II. 109. 

 Brosmer, a fea fifh, II. no. 

 Brown, Sir Thomas : his vulgar errors, I. 



l 57- 

 Brunshane, or Ruffe, abird, II. 68. 

 Bue-hummer, a fort of fhell-fifh defcribed, 



II. 168, 169. 

 Buedye, a rn'aid fervant to look after the 



cows, I. 109. 

 Buffon, Mr. agrees with Burnet, I. 52. Note. 



And with our Author, with regard to petri- 



fied reptiles, 55. His account of futures 

 in the rocks, 56. 

 Butterflies of various colours, II. 47. A 

 curious fort found in Norway, ibid. 



e. 



Cataract in Norway faid to. have been 

 made ufe of for the 'execution .'of traitors, 



I. 95 . 



Caterpillers, a fmall fort of, found in 

 houfes called Mol, II. 47. Great variety 

 of them in Norway, ibid. 



Cats, both tame and wild, found in Norwav. 



II. 8. ' - 7 

 Caviar, made of Sturgeon's roe, II. 113. 



Method of making it of the roe of Mac- 

 karel, ibid. 



Cavities, deep and long in mountains, like 

 fecret paffages, I. 47, & feqq. 



Celto-Scythians, the firft inhabitants , of 

 Norway, II. 222, driven out of Norway 

 by the Afers, or followers of Qthin, ibid. 

 Settled partly in Finland and Lapland, ibid. 

 Anciently called Keltrings, 224. 



Centinels died on their pofts in France by 

 the feverity of the weather in 1 740, II. gg\ 



Centipes, Tufind-been, II. 41. 



Chalcedony found in great quantities .in Nor- 

 way, I. 173. Glittering angular grains of 

 it, about twice the bignefs of a pea, ibid. 



Charlevoix, P. a learned Jefuit : his ac- 

 count of a certain people in America, fup- 

 pofed by the author to be defcended from a 

 northern colony, II. 234. 



Chasms in the fnow dangerous to travellers, 

 I- 43- 



Christiansand, the moft healthful among 

 the trading towns in Norway, II. 261. Rea- 

 fon affigned, ibid. A terrible fire there- in 

 1734, I. Pref. XIV. 



Clay, both yellow and blue, found in Nor- 

 way, I. 38. 



Cluster-worm, Drag-f^e, an infect peculiar 

 to Norway, II. 41, 42. Probably known 

 to Juvenal, ibid. 



Coal-mines, in Norway, efpeclally in the 

 diocefe of Aggerhuus, I. 39. 



Coasts of Norway defcribed, I. 66, 67. 



Cold, moft feverein the eaft part of Norway, 

 I. 17. Method of providing againft it, 18. 



Concha anatifer^e, what, II. 52. 



Conjecture of the author concerning the 

 diffolution of the earth, I. 52. 



Copper-mines defcribed, I. 192, & feqq. 

 Quantity of copper exported from Norway 

 for feveral years, I. 194, 195. IrOn tranf- 

 muted into copper, 195. 



Corals, northern, defcribed, I. 157, & feqq. 

 The author's collection of Corals, 158, 159* 



Cormorant, or Sea-raven, II. 91. 



Corn produced in great quantities in Norway, 



I. 98. 



