202 NATURAL HISTORY of NORWAY. 



De Metaii. gut Mr. Arnd. Berndfen, in his book on the fruitfulnefs of 



lib. 11. cap. 8, 



Denmark, and Norway, page 276, relates, " that in the year 

 1630, copper and lead-ore were found intermixed at Tellemark; 

 Cragii Annai. an( j according to Nicholas Cragius, a hundred years before, and 

 in the fame country, a like difcovery was made. I have been in- 

 formed by credible perfons, that near Foffand-houfe, in the pa- 

 rifh of Strand, befides the iron-ore, feveral rich veins of lead have 

 been found. I lately had a fpecimen of lead-ore fent me, which, 

 upon fufion, proved very rich and good. It came from Ryefylke, 

 not far from Stavanger. If the vein, upon farther fearch, fhould be 

 found large and anfwerable, it will be found very well worth 

 working. The lead-ore, mixed with filver, belonging to the di- 

 ftricl: of Helgeland, on the borders of Sweden, has already been 

 mentioned. 



Eger, not far from Kongfberg, alfo affords lead-ore, and of the 

 Jarlfberg kind; and the proprietors of the copper- work of Oudal, 

 in the diftrid of Soloer, have lately begun to open fome lead- 

 mines. 



S E C T. XV. 



Of the other minerals, which are commonly denied the appel- 

 lation of metals, and of feveral kinds of Mils, ufed for dying and 

 painting, fome intelligent perfons inform me that there are fome 

 to be found here and there in Norway, but others not at all. 

 Great fearches have been made after quickfilver, or mercury, but 

 hitherto without fuccefs, except at one place, where it is matter of 

 great doubt whether it was originally produced there. A few years 

 ago, counfellor Stockfleth, found in a clod of earth near the houfe 

 of Viul, as much quickfilver as would have filled a bafon; but, 

 as after a great deal of laborious digging and fearching no more 

 could be found, it occurred to fome, that this mineral was 

 not native there, it being poffible that the quickfilver of fe- 

 veral looking-glaffes, deftroyed in a fire fome time fince, and 

 thrown thereabouts, might have run together and coalefced in 

 inAakMed. this lump of earth. The conjecture of Th. Bartholin, is ftill more 

 hJS: ad uncertain on the Gramen Offifragum, found in this country, 

 tl% voX ' which he fuppofes to be an indication of lead or /quickfilver be- 

 ing contained in the earth where it grows. 



SECT. 



Quickfilver. 



