NATURAL HISTORY of NORWAY. 4 j 



SECT. VII. 



A fort of almoft invifible fmall Worms is brought hither in the Small Worms 

 Summer with a certain fog, called Haforje, becaufe the Weft- in fogs 

 wind fets it in from the ocean. 



This Haforje is full of the aforefaid fmall Worms, which fall on 

 the trees, and all greens, and do a vaft deal of damage. 



When the honey-dew falls on the fruit or hops, then there 

 follows, -and doubtlefs arifes from that, a fort of fmall Worms, 

 which do a vaft deal of mifchief alfo ; againft which the farmers 

 make ufe of the following remedy : they take one ant- hillock, or 

 more, and boil it in a tun of water, and fprinkle every green 

 thing with it that they want to fave. This honey-dew is a 

 kind of a flimy moifture, which dries by the fun's fudden heat, 

 and then appears in form of cobwebs ; and propably this is the 

 rife of a half fabulous account given in Ewerh. Happelii Mund, 

 Mirab. Torm I. L. II. c. vii. p. 91. in the following words. 



Pratorius in thefe words defcribes an uncommon rain, which HgH German 

 " fell Anno 1665. He fays in his New World, P. I. p. 245, 

 that advices came from Hamburgh of the 29th of July, that 

 a merchant had reported, for truth, the following fa&, which 

 happened in Norway : h e. There is a wood, which the day 

 before was all green and beautiful, and the following day 

 quite withered away, and the leaves were all covered with 

 " linnen, like muflin or gauze * of which the king of Denmark 

 was prefented with 20 ells, and a merchant in Hamburgh had 

 alfo had a piece in his hands. 



cc This we look'd upon as a mere fable at Leipzig, but fome 



" infilled upon the fad, the truth of it being vouch'd by feveral 



" letters from Hamburgh ; yet it remained a kind of doubt, and 



" people did not know what to believe, till one account came 



* in after the other, and cleared up all doubt of this fufpicious 



prodigy; and finally, it was put upon footing of credit, by 



a considerable burgher and merchant's having received a very 



" full and particular account, in the beginning of Auguft, from 



: his faithful friend, a lord of the manor there; which! have 



L read, and with aftonifhment ; viz. from Tundern in Holftein; 



and wherein was fpecified, that at a place in Norway, for about 



a quarter of a mile round, there had fallen a kind of a web, 



<< which had covered the earth. It is almoft white, fays the ac- 



' count, and has the appearance of gauze ; the people in thofe 



" parts had made apparel of it, and dreffed themfelves in it. 



" Perhaps God has fent it to them as a warning, to make them 



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