W A fUllAL HISTORY of NORWAY. %i 



They are very nice, and of a flieep or goat don't eat more 

 than the head or udder ; and by this circumftance one knows that 

 the LofTen has been there. Tho' they always kill, yet they eat 

 very little in the encreafing moon ; but in the decreafe they are 

 more ravenous., and will hide or bury the carcafTes like the bear. 

 The wild cat, which fceras, from its afpe£r, to be of their kind, 

 is their worft enemy. Its almoft continual employment is to 

 look out for them in their holes, and fteal their prey from them. 

 They are very cunning in undermining a fheep-fold, where they 

 help themfelves very nobly. 



It happened lately in fome of thefe that a Goupe was found 

 out by a fly he-goat, who perceived his fub terraneous work, 

 watched him narrowly, and as loon as his head came forth, before 

 the body could be got out, butted him, and gave fuch home 

 pufhes, that he laid him dead in the grave of his own making.. 

 It is faid that the Loflen's claws are good for the cramp, when 

 wore round the neck; but I cannot affirm it, or aflure it to 

 be lb. 



SECT. X. 



Foxes, called Rseve, are found here frequently; they are offox. 

 different colours, white, red, and black ; the laft are the fierceft, 

 and their ikins moft valuable : Ibme of the others, which have 

 two black ftrokes acrofs their backs, fell alfo at a good price % 

 This well-known creature's other properties I need not here 

 defcribe ; for thro' the whole I intend to treat largely upon thole 

 creatures only which are peculiar to this country, and diftincl: from 

 thofeof Denmark, and moft other places; neverthelels, as there 

 are certain general things, known by more inftances or examples 

 in one country than another, I lhall fo far take even thele into 

 confideration. 



And here I mud obferve, that the Norvegian farmer can relate Cunning. 

 moft ftories of the fagacity and cunning for which the Fox, in 

 all countries, is famous^ fo that if we, with certain philolb- 

 phers, would judge all creatures, notwithftanding their feveral 

 degrees of fenfe, or what appears in fome degree of reflection, to be 

 machines, this would hold probable leaft of all of the Fox ; fome 

 of the before related ftories of the Bear fliew alfo the folly of fuch 

 a philolbphy j\ 



1 !lT Berg f n are ex P° rted annually 4000 Foxes lkins, more or lefs. 



t Melius philofophan ilk videntur, qui rationem aliquam brutis tribuunt. Certe 

 nullo negotio, eorum variarum & mirabilium adtionum rationem reddunt. Jo. Cleri- 

 cus Phyi. 1. iv cap xn §.4. It may not be ill applied here to divide with Hr. 

 Heumann, in Ad. Philoi. Tom. xviii, p. 8x8. the numbers of fouls under gold, filver 

 and copper. - - ° ' 



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