2o6 NATURAL HISTORY of NORWAY, 



from the town, is dug a kind of black colour, which, in appear- 

 ance, nearly refembles dried coals, and by fome has been intro- 

 duced for painting. 



A hke S i rant Near Aalgaard in the parifh of Giefdal, in the above-men- 

 tioned province, in the bottom of a little frefh fpring, is found a 

 kind of white loam, like Terra-figillata, and alfo very ductile ; 

 but the moft remarkable property is, its agreeable fmell like that 

 of mufk. 



Terra anti- i n the Epiftolae Ol. Wormii, particularly in the fecond part 717, 

 in a letter to T. Bartholin, mention is made of a kind of mineral- 

 earth beneficial againft the fcurvey, and found near Bergen ; but 

 the particular place is not fpecified, and all of whom I have en- 

 quired know nothing of it ; which fhews the utility of placing in 

 a permanent and confpicuous light what minute difcoveries are 

 gradually made in any part of natural philofophy. The words 

 of this learned perfon, in that place, are thefe : " Terra ilia anti- 

 fcorbutica, cujus mentionem facit catalogus, prope Bergas in Nor- 

 vegia reperitur ; earn mihi attulit Fabricius Medicus Regius, qui 

 ait, ejus civitatis — Poliatrum, non fine fuccefiu ad fudores in 

 fcorbuto movendos ea uti, drachma una in aqua appropriata : cum 

 efFoditur, impura valde eft, radiculis et fabulo repleta : munda 

 lentorem et pinguedinem nullam habet, fed formam pulveris re- 

 fert, colore Turpethi-mineralis, ex mercurio confetti." 



a kind of black earth is found, of which the peafants make a very good dye for their 

 fluffs, which mews that it is likewife proper for painting, and might be ufed inftead 

 of lamp-black. 



End of the First Part. 



