INDEX. 



Scheuchzfx, Mr. conjectures that the higheft 

 of the Alps does not exceed 987 ells in 

 perpendicular height, I. 46. 



Schroeder, Peter, his letter to the Author, 



I. 103. 



Scotch Iflands have all kind of birds in com- 

 mon with Norway, II. 91. 



Scots, a colony of them in Norway, II. 238, 

 239. Still diftinguifhed there by a parti- 

 cular drefs, ibid. 



Scylla and Charybdis fituated in Norway, 

 I. 85,^ & feqq. 



Sea, Frefh fprings in the bottom of it, I. 

 72. Nocturnal corufcations and effulgence 

 of the fca, 73 , & f eq q. Caufe of this ef- 

 fulgence, ibid. Motion or iu«. s Pa by cur _ 

 rents, &c. 76. 



Sea-bean, Faba Marina, I. 156. 



Sea beaver, an infect, II. 51. 



Sea-calf, fee Saslhund. 



Sea-fowl, their numbers almoft incredible, 



II. 58. Their general properties, ibid. 

 Their eggs, ibid. Their fiefh, 59. Turn 

 their heads againft the wind in ftormy 

 weather, ibid. 



Sea-grass of feveral kinds, I. 50. Its ufe 

 and benefit, 151. 



Sea-monsters, treated of, II. 183, & feqq. 

 Not mere chimeras, 107. 



Sea-nettle, the Mansete Urtica Marina, 

 II. 181, 182. 



Sea-snake, Soe Ormen, Serpens marinus mag- 

 nus, a wonderful Sea - monfler, II. 195. 

 Many teftimonies to prove its exiflence, 

 196, & feqq. Its form and properties, 

 199, & feqq. Dangerous to the fiihing- 

 boats, 203. Fifhermen's method of guard- 

 ing againil it, ibid, 6c 204. Suppofed to 

 be the Leviathan or Crooked ferpent, men- 

 tioned in fcripture, 206. North-fea its na- 

 tive place, 208. Account of very large Snakes 

 or Serpents in other places, 210. One men- 

 tioned by Pliny, Livy, and Val, Maximus, 

 ibid. 



Sea- sun, or Caput Medufe, a remarkable 

 fifh, II. 180. Suppofed by fome to be the 

 fpawn of the Krake, 18 r. 



Sea-trees. I. 152. The ufe of them, ibid. 

 Their branches obferved to grow four or 

 five feet in two years, 156. 



Sea-water, weight or ir, 1. 7 ©. Its colour, 

 ibid. Its foftnefs, 71. Not fo fait about 

 Norway as in warmer climates, ibid. Oily, 



- 73- 



Sey, a Sea-fifh, II. 143. 



Serpents, and other venomous creatures, not 

 found beyond the Temperate Zone, II. 35. 

 Of feveral forts in Norway, ibid. Singu- 

 lar incident concerning a Serpent, 06. 



Seven-sisters, a range of mountains of a 

 lingular appearance, I. 46. 

 Part II. 



Shark, fee Haae. 

 Sheep, Norwegian, defcribed, II. 6: 

 Shrimps, Squilla marina, II. 177. 

 Sieben-schwantz, Micro-phcenix, la Grive^ 



Bohemienne, II. 94. 

 Siik, Albula nobilis, a frefh-water fifh, II.' 



143. 



Siisgen, a bird, II. 94. 



Sild, the Herring, Harengus, II. 143. Its 



food 144. The king of the Herrings* 



ibid. Prodigious fhoals of them, ibid. 

 Silver, a piece taken out of the mines in 



Norway weighing 560 pounds, and prefer- 



ved in the mufeum at Copenhagen, 185. 



Quantity of filver exported from Norway 



from 171 1 to 1734 inclufively, 139. 

 Sr '-VER mines in Norway defcribed, I. 181. 

 Scade, the ivio.gp; e> f two or three forts in 



Norway, II. 94, 95. 

 Scalle, 'Alburnus, a frefh-water fifh, II. 149. 

 Skarv, Columbus, the Loon, of three kinds, 



II. 95 . 

 Skeleton of a Whale found at Tiftedale, 



1687, I. gg. Of a man of gigantic fize, 



II. 242. 

 Skue, the Black Diver, II. $6. 

 Sledge-chaises, drawn by peafants in Nor-: 



way, I. 42. 

 Slow-worm, Slasbe, II. 41. 

 Snails, of feveral forts, Snegle, II. 40." 

 Snee-fugl, the Snow-bird, II. 96. 

 Snee-kreed, or Snee-fond, Snow-falls, very 



dangerous in Norway, I. 30. Not unknown 



in Switzerland, ibid. Defcribed by the poet 



Claudian, ibid. Note. 

 Snegle, Sea-fnails, Cochlea, II. 167. 

 Sneppe, the Snipe, Scolopax, II. 96. 

 Snows, deep on the mountains, advantage and 



difadvantage of, I. 28, & feqq. 

 Soe-kat, the Sea-cat, II. 149. 

 Soil, of Norway in general, I. 35. 



SOLIDA INTRA SOLIDA, what, I. 54, 55. 



Solsort, the MhTel-bird, II. gy. 



Solv-fisk, afea-fifh, II. 150. 



Sonden-winds-ftjgl, South-wind-bird, de- 

 fcribed, II. 99, 100. 



Speculum Regale, an antient manufcript, 

 fuppofed by the author to be loft, I. Pref. 

 XIV. This proved a miftake, it being ftill 

 extant, II. Pref VI. The notion of its being 

 written by king Sverre without foundation, 

 ibid. Sc VII. 



SpEK-hugger, afea-fifh, II. 150. 



Spette, the Wood-pecker, II. gy. 



Spidberg, Jens, his defcription ofChriftian- 

 fand, I. 16. Note. 



Spider, Kongro, or Spindel, Aranea, II. 42; 



Spove, a Strand-bird, II. gy, 



Spurre, the Sparrow, ibid. 



Squirrel, Egernet, II. 24, 



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