NATURAL HISTORY of NORWAY. \t% 



inches in length, with two pretty long bones in proportion to its 

 bulk, which are very fharp, and pointed like fwords ; with thefe, 

 which ftand erecl: on each fide, they defend therruelves from 

 injuries. 



The Hyffe, by the Germans called Schelfifch, is very like the H ) ffc - 

 Whiting ; it differs only by fome fmall fcales on the ikin, which 

 makes the other more evidently of the Cod kind, tho' they both 

 belong to that genus, The Hyffen has alio, by way of 

 diftindion, two black fpots on the back part of its neck : thefe 

 are caught, like Whitings, on muddy bottoms, in great quan- 

 tities; tho' they are very feldom exported, unlefs it be for want 

 of better forts of Fifti. 



SECT. IX. 



The Jifgalt, Vulpecula marina, the Sea Fox, is a Fifh about J if s alt - 

 two feet long, fomething like a fmall Shark; it has a white 

 fhining ikin, and there is a pointed bone jutting out on his neck ; 

 the tail is very long and narrow, and ends in a point. This Fifli 

 is caught only in deep water, and that but feldom, and by acci- 

 dent. It is very fat, particularly the liver, which yields a fort 

 of oil, that, they fay, heals all wounds, and preferves iron from 

 rufting better than any other oil, which makes it much valued. 



The Karpe, Carpio ? the Carp, is not a Fifh properly belonging Karpe. 

 to Norway, and therefore very fcarce. When they are imported 

 and put in. our waters, their breed becomes gradually lefs and 

 lefs. This a learned friend of mine has allured me from his own 

 experience. 



The Karudfe is to be found here, as in other places, in theKarudfe. 

 rivers and ponds ; we have both the large yellow, and the Imall 

 darkiih kind % 



The Kobbe, or Sselhund, the Sea Calf, Phoca, is to be reckoned Kobbe or 

 amongft the amphibious animals; for tho 5 water is its proper 

 element, it always loves to be near the more, or the rocks and 

 cliffs ; and farther up the North-tea they will lay themfelves on 

 the great flakes of ice, efpecially when they want to fleep or 

 reft themfelves. A Kobbe of the common fort is about five or 

 fix feet long. The Steen-Kobberne is fomething lefs, and thofe 

 they call here Hav-Erken are a kind of large overgrown 



* On a rock lying three miles beyond Loms Parfonage in Gulbrandfdalen, there are 

 Found in a pond Karudfer of fach a prodigious fize, that the right reverend bifhop 

 Herfleb has allured me, that the bones of fome of them, which he collected on his 

 vifitation-joumey, brought to Chriftiana and ihewed there, were taken (by thofe that 

 were unacquainted with them) for bones of large Cod. In Store-Mios are found alfo 

 Karudfer as big as a large plate. 



Part II. K k Sselhund, 



