1804.] 
but they are now exercifed freely by the 
townfmen in general. The town itfelf 
pofiefles confiderable  fitheries : and it. is 
alfo the common place of fale for all the » 
fifth taken in the neighbourhood. .Chril- 
tianfand “has alfo a confiderable trade in 
timber. The timber, however, which it 
exports, is of inferior quality, and goes for 
the greater part to Ireland. 
On the 30th of July our travellers fail- 
ed from Chriftianfand for Bye, a diffance 
of about twenty miles. Itis a very dan- 
gerous navigation, in which many velleis 
are from time to time lofi. But Mr. Fa- 
bricius and his friend performed it in 
fafety. Bye is a {mall village, iihabited 
by fifhermen. Its neighbourhcod, is, 
though rocky, tolerably fertile, and exhit- 
bits both meadows and corn-fields. R 
abundance of fea-weéds on the coait has 
lately encouraged the inhabitants of this 
neighbourhood to try the manufacture of 
kelp, as in Scotland ; but they have not 
hitherto been very fuccefsful inthe at- 
tempt. 
cofts an expence not lefs than fifty or 
fixty rix-dollars, 
On the way from Bye to IIdere our 
travellers obferved that fea-weeds were in 
different places ufed as manure to the 
arable land. Upon enquiry they learned 
‘that the Jand was by this manure kept 
fertile in a courfe of confant tillage.— 
Wheat, oats, and barley, were the grains 
growing upon its they were in fufficiently 
luxuriant growth. 
At Walderhog, as Mr. Fabricius was 
walking on the beach, he faw a veffel pafs 
with a lading of kelp. It was obferved 
with great indignation by fome inhabi- 
tants of Walderhog. ‘They complained 
that the burning of the fea-weeds drove 
away the fifh; and they threatened to 
remon‘rate to Government againft the 
Tighe of this praétice. The tomb of 
ing Walder was near the inn: it is 
large, round, and formed of a prodigious 
Humber of flones which appear to have 
been taken out of the fea. The bafeis 
now covered with earth and overgrown 
with grafs. Many of the ftones have been 
taken away in the expe@lation of finding 
treafures under them. 
ed grotto was another object of curiofity 
near this village. It is, at the entrance, 
- ef confiderable width and elevation, The 
roof becomes continually lower as it re- 
tires backwards. One of the fides is of 
granite, the other lime-ftone. At the 
bottom appears, a large orifice, which is 
faid to form a communication between, 
this and another grotto ftill lager. Tinis 
_ Monrary Mac ,Ne. 153. 
Travels in Norway, by 7. GC. Fabrivius. 
_ duce. 
The equipment of a fifhing-boat’ 
tice of inoculation into Norway. 
A Spacious vault- . 
Atl 
grotto is perfectly dry within. It was 
formerly, perhaps, a haunt of pirates s 
wild beafts now take fhelter in. it during 
the winter. Near this grotto our travel-* 
lers paffed over an extenfive peat-morafs, 
of which a great part was tilled and fown 
with corn and barley. It appeared to 
have been anciently a foreft of pines and 
birches. Adit 
On the 4th of Auguft, at Wolden, Mr. 
Fabricius infpetted certain huts, which 
were thewn as the remains of an eftablith. 
ment which one Dr. Erichfen had attempt- 
ed to form here on a project of manufac- 
turing faltpetre out of fea-weeds and pu- 
trid fifa. He had borrowed large fums of 
money on the frength of his project. but 
when he came to carry it into effet, not 
a particle of faltpetre was he able to pro- 
On the fea-fhore Mr. Fabricius 
obferved, in this neighbourhood, a ftra- 
tum of that which Linnzus denominates 
talky earth. . 
At Leken, the next remarkable place 
which our travellers vifited, they found 
the inhabitants to be, ina manner, \irangers 
to the fubdivifion of labour which pre- 
vails in other parts. Every man acted 
as his own taylor, fhoemaker, fmith, mil- 
ler, and carpenter. The corn was in ge- 
neral bad. Large heaps of peat, or turf, 
for fuel were every where to be feen ; as 
alfo heaps of the fame turf aad peat-earth 
intended for ufe as a manure, They 
found the inhabitants of Leken likewife 
buly in collecting the leaves of certain 
trees, to be given for food to their cattle 
in winter. : / 
At Dalvigen they had much fatisfac- 
tion in converfing with Mr. Krog, the 
parifh-minifter, a man of worth and 
learning, whofe endeavours had _princi- 
pally contributed to introduce the prac- 
It is 
remarkable, that, amongtft other prejudices 
againft inoculation, the Norwegians are 
finple enough to believe that the fifhery 
has been of late lefs fuccefsful on account 
of the introduétion of that practice inte 
their country. The moft common difor- 
der on this coaft is pleurify. Cancer is 
alfo more common here than in fome other 
places. , 
Our travellers arrived at Bergen on the 
evening of the 14th of Auguft. Aer 
telling their names and producing their 
paffports, they were required to wait im- 
mediately upon the commander, who held 
the principal authority.in the town.— 
Bargen is the largeft town in Norway, and 
the principal in trade. Immediately be- 
hind it rife lofty mountains, carcely ac- 
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