NATURAL HISTORY of NORWAY, H3 



SECT. V. 



Saelhund. See Kobbe. s*ihund. 



The Sey, which we in Denmark call Graafey, is very like thesey. 

 Lyr before defcribed : the head is rather more pointed, and the 

 body finaller ; and 'tis alfo covered with fine fcales. The flefh 

 is coarfer than the Cod's, and is not eaten, except by the peafants 

 and fervants. While they are young they are called Mort, and 

 are feen playing about the water in prodigious numbers, where 

 they ferve for the food and nourifhment of other Fifh. When 

 they are fomewhat older they are called Pale, and are tolerably 

 well tailed : as they grow ftill larger we give them the name 

 of Sey-Ofs; and laftly, when they are full grown we call them 

 Summer-Sey. Then they come in with the Summer Herrings, 

 and purfue them along with the Whale, and other Fifh of prey. 

 Thefe laft have not a greater enemy and perfecutor than the 

 Summer-Sey. They alfo are harraiTed and purfued by the Whale ; 

 but when he cannot get any farther becaufe of the (hallows, 

 thefe fmaller devourers continue the purfuit, and drive the 

 Herrings before them into the creeks and inlets, and that with 

 fuch violence, that they frequently run themfelves afhore. In 

 Sundmoer they are often taken up in pails as faft as the people 

 can put them in; and there are often fuch fhoals of them that 

 they incommode one another. What is moft extraordinary is, 

 that fometimes this fhoal is feen in the middle of the water' 

 crowded fo clofe together, that they lift one another above the 

 furface ; and one man may, in the fpace of an hour, take up 

 60 or 70 of them with a pole, to the end of which a flrong 

 fiftiing hook is fattened. They catch them alfo with angling- 

 rods and lines, and nets 3 and this laft way they will fometimes 

 take 200 casks of them at a draught. 



The Siik, the Albula nobilis, is a fmall freOv water Fifh, well Siik. 

 rafted : .it is generally found with the Salmon-Trout, and is 

 reckoned a better Fifh; but there is no great refemblance 

 between them, tho' they ufually breed in the fame lakes. 



The Sild, the Herring, Flarengus, a Fifh every where known, sua. 

 and from our feas fent almoft all over Europe : it would therefore 

 be fuperfluous to detain the reader with a particular defcription 

 of it; a very full one may be read in Schonveldii Ichtyolog. Neu- 

 craatzii, Opufc. de Harange, & Willoughby's Hift. Pifc. This 

 laft author calls the Herring Rex Pifcium, the King of Fifties ; 

 which appellation may be taken in this fenfe ; viz. that of all 

 Fifh there is none fo profitable to us Europeans ; for in the Nether- 

 lands 



