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the Mediterranean, according to Gefner's account, p. q ? they 

 pickle and eat them, accounting them very delicate for the table * 

 and in Nordland they eat them broil'd. 



The Negen Ogen, the Lamprey, otherwife called the Stain- NegenQgen. 

 fue, or Stone-fucker, is taken, according to Undalini's account, 

 in Store Mios, and other frefh waters, particularly in the rivers 

 of Mandal and Undal, where they are found as thick as a man's 

 wrifl, though but two feet long, but it is not look'd upon here (as 

 in foreign countries) as a well-tafled, or even as an eatable Fifh. 

 " Muraena ob venenofam qualitatem non immerito fufpecta quin 8c 

 mandentibus (lit recle Aldrovandus) fuis ariflis plurimum faflidii 

 pai it g fays Willoughby , p. 1 04. They are often feen to jump againft 

 the ft ream like a Salmon, in order to get up the rivers and with 

 their fharp teeth they will lay hold of the rock : hence this Fifh 

 has its Norvegian name, viz, Steen-fue. 



The Orte, or Oret, the Salmon-trout, Trutta Taurina, is caught ate. 

 both in frefh and fait water, like the Salmon, and is of the fame 

 genus : it is much like the fmall Salmon, which we call here 

 Tart, excepting that the head is thicker and fhorter, and the 

 body, near the tail, is broader, and of a dark colour ; but it is 

 neither fo fat, or well-tafted. . It is caught in nets, and generally 

 where the rivers empty themfelves into the fea *. 



It is a very common Fifh in the fresh lakes and rivers, but 

 many of them are fubjed to a fort of difeafe, fo that they cannot 

 be eaten. In that cafe their head grows very large, and the body ' 

 is emaciated- and in their intrails there are found pimples, re- 

 fembling millet-feeds, This diftemper is afcribed here to' the 

 faw-duft that falls into the rivers, on which there are mills for 

 fawing timber. Others are of opinion that the roe, which is very 

 large hi proportion to their fize, is corrupted, for want of be- 

 ing ejeaed in proper time, and occafions this diftemper : but 

 I cannot comprehend what should prevent them from doing it 

 unlefs it be the want of a convenient place, according to their 



* It is furprizing, that on the top of the rock Varne-fet, and many other high places 

 in Haranger, they catch tins Fiffc in fmall ftagnant waters, or ponds, which," by he 

 high fkuanon, do not feem to have any communication with any other ponds or river 

 Can it be fuppoted that thofe Fifh have been there fince the flood, or that birds of prey 

 have carried this fpawn, or young fry, up there? Or is it poffible th t the fo- 

 mentioned in chap. i. earned them up, and dropped them in thofe ponds- as the 

 heavy clouds are fa*d to take up Herrings out of the fea, and to drop diem on he 

 rocks in Faroe ? If not, then one muft imagine that thofe waters, in mch a hi«h fta- 

 lon, by means of fubterraneanpaflages, have communication with other waters, as is 

 to be concluded that the frefh water lake, Lille-mios, in Valders, has a comm mid ton 

 with the ocean becaufe they find Cod in.it. Herman Rugge, minifter of S lire ob^ 



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