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cherries, makes pleafant and cooling liquor. Ribs, i. e. currants, 

 red and white, which are here called vinbar, i. e. wine-berries; 

 foclbar, fun-berries; hindbar, rafpberries; likewife red and white 

 ftickkleitar, Goofberries ; brambar, blackberries ; biornebar, bar- 

 berries ; hyben, a kind of berries, which alfo are here called clun- 

 ger; blaabar, bilburnes; and a large fort of them called blaakbar, 

 or krakebcer, cranberries, and efpecially the wholfom and deli- 

 cious jordbasr, ftrawberries ; of which there is great plenty, befides 

 many other kinds of fuch berries as are hardly to be met with in 

 any other country than Sweden and Norway: The firft of thefe 

 is oexel or afaldbasr, of which a farther account mail be given in 

 the article of trees; tegebar or teyebar, by Lockftor called uvse- 

 norweg, growing on long ftalks which run along the ground, and 

 hanging at the end of them in bunches like grapes; the leaves are 

 like thofe of the cherry-tree, the bloffom white, fmall and coni- 

 cal, the berries in appearance like currants, but far furpalling 

 them in tafte * 



Tranebaer, myrtillus repens, likewife grow on long fmall ftems, 

 fpreading themfelves along the ground; the berries are red and 

 four, and, like the floe, do not ripen till winter, or rather the 

 fpring, when on removing the fnow, I have gathered them on the 

 mountain Filefleld in their perfection, yet did not find in them 

 that high flavor which the rein-deer feem to enjoy in eating 

 them, and perhaps it is for their refrefliment that the God of na- 

 ture may have particularly intended them. 



Crakebasr grows upon a fpinous ftem of a middling height, 

 not unlike the juniper-berries ; the fruit has fome affinity with the 



ZJ^^ft I ar T^T S *l°f CaIled 3 infon S' which from th e defection and 

 figure of it in father duHalde, Defcript. de la Chine, t. ii. p. l82 . feems perfedlv 



whicTtS rv W f t N °/ Way te ^ r ' th0U S h k is not th * benies but ff 7 

 which the Chinefe efteem fo rare and valuable, that it is fold by weight asainft fiW 



men Xa on Y "^ ** &&*»*- ° f that W*7- as a "^iSine for the gr at 

 Souf^H T IT ^ aWe u t0 Pay /° r k ' and one of the em P er °rs fcnt a body often 



ord tf drx ^ mUle T^rtts^ Mj *<&** ^^ L 'E m pereur avoft cW 

 wore a aix mule lartares, d aller ramaffer tout ce qu'i s pourroient du einfenc* 5 



rtSsr^s: S ate? k fa majeft6V,x Les du 4^4 



» rift „T e f ?' 'ft' r ° 0t Sre in ° the hi S heft de S ree °f efteem, a decoftion of it beina 

 , the inveibgations and experiments of the faculty. te^eoar, i leave to 



bilberries, 



