NATURAL HISTORY oi NORWAY, .113 



Pfalm Ixxiii. ver. 22. and 26. After this they mutually encou- 

 raged each other in the hope of eternal felicity, to patience, and 

 perfeverance in faith, jointly recommending themfelves to God, 

 and totally defpairing of all temporal relief, fince the above-men- 

 tioned herb had failed them. But in the night between the twelfth 

 and thirteenth, day of their famine, being the eighteenth day of 

 Auguft, their hearts were revived, by the found of horfes galloping 

 up the mountains; upon which they called out, and being heard, 

 the riders flew to their affiftance, and putting off in their boat, 

 which, as another inftance of God's paternal care, had received 

 no damage, brought them afhore. Food being offered to them, 

 the elder brother could eat very little of it, and the lititle he did 

 eat, threw him into fuch a diforder, as after his return home con- 

 fined him eight days to his bed; however, he furvived it thirty- 

 feven years. The younger brother found himfelf .lefs' incom- 

 moded,, and in the year 1691 drew up this relation, particularly 

 thanking God, that their dog, the fubordinate means, of their 

 deliverance, had not fwam over to them when they called^ and 

 made all the figns imaginable, with a view of killing him for 

 their fuftenance. I beg pardon for this digreffion, and reft the 

 truth of the fad; upon jdie authority of the party himfelf. 



SECT. XL 



\ I 

 After thus treating of grain and grafs, . the chief fuftenance of A11 kInds of 



. ° 72 T 11 ' • efculent and 



men and other ammak; the culinary and garden vegetables are § ardcii ve s e - 



ri . \ ■ tables. 



the next in order for our consideration. The common people 

 here, and efpecially in the country, have very little tafte for thefe, 

 and even the towns and cities ufed to be fupplied from Eno-land 

 and Holland with cabbage, leeks, and other loots. But in this 

 century, efpecially within thefe forty years, a foreign fupply is be- 

 come lefs neceffary, as gardening grows more into vogue, for 

 which the country is partly indebted, to a very ufeful little piece, 

 intitled, The Norway Horticulture, publifhed at Drontheim, by 

 Chriftian Gartner; and a happy experience has fhewn, that all 

 kinds of efculent vegetables thrive in our gardens; they produce 

 cabbage of all kinds and colours, green, white, or red, likewife 

 green peas, common and french beans, afparagus, artichoaks, 

 melons, cucumbers, garlic, parfley, fellary, marjoram, thyme, 



fage, 



