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where more numerous than in Lapland, where, according to 

 Wheelwright (" The Old Bushman " of the Field), no signs 

 of disease have ever been detected ; and the same remark, I 

 believe, would appl}' to vast tracts of fell land throughout 

 Norway, where man's disturbing influence has never made 

 itself felt, and where the grouse are left to fight unaided their 

 own battles for existence. 



