INDEX. 



Star-fish, Kors-fifk, Stella-marina, a curious 

 fifh, and particularly defcribed, II. 179, 180 

 St^er, the Starling, II. 98. 



SxEEN-bider, Lupus-pifcis, the Sea-wolf, II. 

 151. 



Steens-brosmer, a fifh, II. 151. 



Steenskreed, difruption of a rock, its fatal 

 confluences, I. 60. 



Steen-ulk, Rana Pifcatrix, the Frog-fim, or 

 Sea-devil, 151, 152. 



Stillitz, the Gold-finch, II. 98. 



Stock-^nder, a kind of Wild duck, fup- 

 poled to grow on trees, I. 6 7 . That opi- 

 nion confuted, ibid. & 68. 



Stones, allowed by the French academy to 

 nave been originally a foft or flimypafte, I. 

 53 : Note. Not vegetative, &z sieving 

 their fubftance to Huu~> keen foft and fluid, 

 but fuddenly indurated, 176. Remarkable 

 figure of a ftone on the mountain Svuku, 

 177. 



Stork, feldom feen in Norway, II. 98. 



Storre, Sturio, the Sturgeon, of feveral forts, 

 II. 153, 154. 



Story, a remarkable one of two brothers, 

 I. in, & feqq. Of a Bear, 13, 14. 



St r ansi dde re, a fort of people that live by 

 fifhing, II. 5. Feed their cows with cods- 

 heads and fifh-bones, ibid. The Arabians do 

 the fame at Balfora, ibid. Note. 



Svale, the Swallow, Hirundo, an account of 

 its retreat in Winter, II. 98, gg. 



Svane, the Swan, not common in Norway, 

 If. gg. 



Sulphur, found in great plenty in Norway, 

 I. 203. 



Summer-nights, thecleannefs and ferenity of 



them in Norway, I. 3. 

 Sun, continually in fight in Summer in the 



diftrid of Tromfen, I. 3. 

 Sw^rd-fish, Serra priftis, the Saw-fifh,II. 154. 



Held facred by the Negroes on the African 



coaft, 155. 

 Swedes, feveral thoufands of them perifhed by 



extreme cold, I. 18. 

 Syre, a Norwegian river that moots into the 



fea like an arrow, I. 91. 



T. 



Tale-stone, or Veeg-fteen, I. 166, 167. 

 Tar, extracted from the roots of fir-trees, II. 

 282,283. A profitable commodity, I. 143. 

 Tart, or Pinke, a fmall kind of Salmon, II, 



155- 



Tartars, a colony of, fettle in Norway, II. 

 240. 



Teist, a fea bird, II. 100. 



Terra antiscorbutica, found in Norway, 

 I. 206, 



Thistles, fome of them bear corn in Nor- 

 way, I. 117. 



Thunder-stones, I. 176. Unanimoufly al- 



low'd to be artificially wrought, I I7 s 



Tides, greateft height of them in Norwa* 

 is eight feet, I, 7 6. Much higher in Ens- - 

 land, and the Netherlands, ibid. 



Tield, a .Arrange bird, II. 100. A great enemy 

 to the raven, ibid. The farmers favourite 

 ibid. 



Tilas, Daniel, an entertaining little book of 

 his quoted by the author, I. 193, lg4 . 



Timber, exported from Norway in vaft quan- 

 tities to different parts of Europe, I. 137. 



TiuRjUrasgallus major, the Cock of the wood 3 

 or Cock of the mountain, II. 101. 



Toads, Tudfer, not very comm^" «* Nor- 

 way, II, £n- 



TrM»-~co, the Norwegians fond of it, II. 269, 

 270. Firft introduced into Norway, ibid 



Torboe, a plant fatal to horfes, I. 131. 



Torghatten, a remarkable mountain in 

 Norway, I. 47. 



Torsk, the Cod-fifh, Afellus major, II. 15c, 

 Way of catching them, ibid. & feqq. 



Tourgrass, a noxious plant, I. 131. 



Tour ne fort, his afcent to the top of Mount 

 Arrarat, I. 132. 



Trade and commerce nourifhed in Norway 

 for many ages, II. 279. The moft consider- 

 able trading cities there, II. 280. 



Trees, a catalogue of thofe in Norway, I. 

 138, & feqq. 



Truviers, a kind of Snow-fhoes, I. 29, II. 

 274. 



Tunge, Solea, a flat fifh, II. 159. 



Turbot, fee Helle-flynder. 



Turf, both black and brown found in Nor- 

 way, I. 38. 



V. U. 



Vadmel, a kind of coarfe cloth worn by the 

 Norway peafants, II. 276. 



Vagtel, Coturnix, the Quail, II. 101. 



Valrus, the Sea-horfe, II. 159, 160. 



Vas-sild, the Herring, II. 160. 



Veal, in Norway, not inferior to that in Eng- 

 land, II. 5. Note. 



Veegsteen, a valuable ftone for building, 

 II. 276. 



Veiter, a fort of trenches., de&ribed, I. 103.' 



Vegetables, all kind of e'fculent and garden, 

 thrive in Norway of late years, I. 113. 



Vegetables, chiefly noxious, growing in 

 Norway, and little known elfewhere, de- 

 fcribed, I. 126, & feqq. 



Vetches, reckoned by M. Ramus among the 

 vegetables of Norway, I. 107. 



Ugle, the Owl, Bubo, II. 102. Two forts 

 in Norway, ibid. 



Vibe, the Plover, II. 10 1. 



Viola canina, a plant of extraordinary qua- 

 lity, I. no. Supported the lives of two 

 brothers feveral days, I, ibid. 



Vitriol, 



