THE 



NATURAL HISTORY 



O F 



NORWAY: 



CONTAINING, 



A particular and accurate Account of the Temperature of the Air, the 

 different Soils, Waters, Vegetables, Metals, Minerals, Stones, Beads, 

 Birds, and Fifhes ; together with the Difpofitions, Cuftoms, and 

 Manner of Living of the Inhabitants : Interfperfed with Phyfiological 

 Notes from eminent Writers, and Transactions of Academies. 



In TWO PARTS. 



Tranfl ated from the Danish Original of the 



ight Rev d . Erich Pontoppidan ? 



Bifhop of Bergen in Norway, and Member of the Royal Academy 

 of Sciences at Copenhagen. 



Illuftrated with Copper Plates, and a General Map of N o r w a y . 







LONDON: 



Printed for A. Linde, Bookfeller to Her Royal Highness the Princels Dowager 

 of Wales, in Catherine-Street in the Strand, 



MDCCLV, 



