NATURAL HISTORY of NORWAY. 35 



ably confifted of the water i which that ipiral eloud had a little 

 before exhaled from the fea** 



Filled with aftonifhment at the many and ftupendous works of Condnfcm. 

 the Almighty (efpecially in the air and its phenomena) I clofe 

 this lubjecl: with his own words in the xxxviiith chapter of Job, 

 verfe 24, See. By what way is the light parted which fcattereth 

 the eajl wind upon the earth ? Who hath divided a water-courfe 

 for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightening of thun- 

 der f To caufe it to rain on the earth where no man is, on the 

 wildernefs, wherein is no man ? To fatisfy the deflate and wafle 

 ground, and to caufe the bud of the tender herb to fpring forth P 

 Hath the rain a father f or who hath begotten the drops of the 

 dew ? out of whofe womb came the ice? and the hoary fr oft of 

 heaven, who hath gendered it ? 



CHAPTER II. 



Of the foils and mountains of Norway. 



S E c T. I. Of the foil of Norway in general Sect. II. Several kinds of foil ; 

 as mould, clay, fand, turf mud, &c. Sect. III. Two kinds of mountains. 

 Sect. IV. Extenfve chains of Vaft mountains, as Koelen, Seveberg, Dofre 

 and Filefield. Sect. - V. Many lefjer mountains in all the provinces. 

 Sect. VI. Beep and long cavities y like fecret pafages, in fome mountains , 

 with conjectures on the origin of them. Sect. VII. Ejfeft of the deluge in. 

 difolving and foftening Jubfiances, which are at prefent of the hardejl kind, 

 but appear manifeftly to have heenfoft heretofore. Sect. VIII. The origin of 

 mountains, rocks, and f mailer f ones, deduced from the foregoing argument. 

 Sect. IX. Betriment offo many rocks and mountains to Norway. S e ct. X. 

 Advantages of them, according to the wife and bountiful defign of the Creator. 



SECT. I. 



THE diverfity which I have fhewn in refpect. to the air, of the earth 

 light, heat, cold, rains, and winds of Norway, is no lefs ffyu 

 obfervable in the various foils of the earth, in the mould, fand, gQ ™^ 



* ^\ L ^ CaS 1 Debe f, J ?• I2 ' of his Description of Ferro, fays, that fuch a cloud, 

 amonft the Greeks, called Typhon, and among the northern people Oes, for it ab- 

 forbs the water making a deep vortex in the fea, drew up fome lafts of herrings, 

 and afterward dropt them on Kolter, a mountain about twelve hundred feet in 

 height, page 14. He imagines that it is thefe Oefes which in Norway attrad ftones, 

 flefh, mice, and, what is more remarkable, lambs, and afterwards throw them down 

 again •, of which a further account will be given in its place, 



Part I. L roc ks, 



