Ne Travels ie Norway, by F.C. Fabricixs. 
howls 5 and Pam confident in faying, a 
proceis of this kind will bring up a 
ebild for the Rit By months, without aa 
thing eke, Por iniants who are inelin 
to coftivenes, the Scotch barley is pre 
ferable, IT hope T may be pardoned for 
taking up (much rom ia your valuable 
Mileeltany ; but as I think it the beit pub- 
Heaton extant for {preadiog information $ 
end as. medical treatifes do pot make a 
part of eoery wrether’s Uérary, T thought 
Ht might be a means of makiag ‘more 
wunivenfal a method, which I know is 
fanSioned by the fiet phyiicians in the 
Kingdom; and if by the preient hints I 
thal be the means of reieuing other in 
fants, as I have my own, from infantile 
citeate and weakneis, I fhall have no 
yeafon to regret my prefumption in mak- 
ing them puodilic. 
Now. 643, 1803, ‘ M. B. 
For Memihiy the Magaxine. 
TRAVELS te NORWayY, éy J.C, FABRI- 
CrUS—Laiely padiiibed at Leipgc. 
( Qritmwed. from pga, Ne. 11a.) 
DETWEEN Acre and Berfert, Mr-Fa- 
brvcius was affected with a very painful 
forenets of his eyes, Tt was produced by 
the alternate changes between extreme heat 
and exccilive cold. He continued to be af. 
flicted by it a he came to Reeraas, where 
he fucceeded im curing himfelf by the ule 
of fugar of lead dilu ed in cold water, 
At Feléen, a fail village on the River 
Glommen, our travellers found a fmall 
copper-work. The ore was brought from 
Reeraas, to be there prepared and purified 
fer ufg, on acoount of the contiguity of 
the river and the aburcance of wood and 
cherooal in that place. Between aces and 
JOOS tons Of Copper were annually pre- 
pared there. 
The dimall-pex made, fill, dreadfal ha. 
voek in thisditrict. The people ia gerecal 
continued da the uehappy practice of fur. 
tiag up thaie whe wee dl ef it in very 
cle Aparlnents, Covering them up very 
warty amd giving them exefliviy hot 
dunks, Some jeve had, however, become 
rentible of the benekt of inceulation ; and 
the parif-miniftcrseargedtiy recommended 
it to the people under their charge. 
On vhe urthof July, our travellerscar- 
rived at Rerags, ove of the moit confider- 
abie tewns im the North of Norway. It 
ftands on a narrew plain, encircled with 
hulls, tome ot which are very lofty, and 
are even in the miiff ot dummer covered) 
with frew. The -houtes of the town are. 
ef wood, andim general Very final, » Pe 
[March 1, 
whole population may be about sooo fouls, 
OF all Norway this ditei rifes the highelt 
above the level of the fea: and many ris 
vers rifing here, defgend in oppofite dire. 
tions to the fea though different provinces, 
The climate is exceilively cold 5 and even 
in fummer there fearce pallets a night 
without a fall of inow or hoar-froit. No 
fort of grain ripens here. Even potatoes 
never grow larger than the fize of a nut 3 
to thort is the time for their growth. They 
cannat be planted before St. John’s day 
and they muit be taken out of the growe 
in the month of Augué. Pot-herbs are 
exceedingly fearce. “The grounds about 
the town turnith nothing but hay for the 
Wwinterfubiiftence of the cattle, which are 
fent_ in fummer to the Soelers. The 
corn is brought all from Dronthcim, the 
carriage coiting 14 rixdollar per toa. Rye 
coils at Reeraas, 4) rixdollars a ton; bar. 
ley 343 oats 24. In times of extreme 
{cancity, recourte is had to the ule of a 
very bad fpecies of bread made from 
the bark of trees. It fills the flomach, 
but yields little real nourifhmeént, and ec- 
cafons fevere complaints of the ftomach 
and obftructions in the bowels. In thofe 
parts which are contiguous to the confines 
of Sweden, corn is (il more fearee and 
dear; and even in the “es favourable 
years, the e are there obliged to vie 
ee rere bread, Bus they ule 
it in a imall proportion in mixture with 
meal from grain; and it is of courf the 
Isis hurtful to the ftomach, The bark 
which they put to this ufe, is that of 
young pines. They detach it drem: the 
tree, ferape off the hard exterior fuperficies, 
‘caving nothing but an inner bark nor 
thicker than the blade of a knife. This 
they expoie to dry fome time in the air, 
and then tke it to the mill, 
faccharine tate, but eceaiions obfiraGions 
in the. chy liany duets, and a lois of appe- 
tit. Mr, Fabricius is of opinion, that the 
fwheas, which the inhabitants of Iceland, 
atter eeping them in hot water, ule in a 
jelly with milk, would afford a much betes 
tev dupply of focd to the poar Norwe- 
g-ans npextreme neceflicy, than that which 
they Rad in the ule of their barkumeal. 
The Directors of the Mines at Reeraas 
heve fpared no pains ner © to eRa- 
bith ample flores of grainvat this place. — 
But only the workmen in their yr ae 
ment have the advantage of ‘thee. 
thcis workmen they fell out the grain in 
recall at the feme price at which th 
themfelves bought it: and the workmea 
may have their ‘in carn cr mo- 
ney, at theirown pleafure.: There are at 
prefent 
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