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very peculiar race of people, totally unlike what are ~ 
met with in other parts of the country.* 
The Toppats Exy, and its tributary the Sxszaqu- 
DALS Envy, will also afford tolerable trout-fishing, while 
the lakes are said to abound with good fish. 
The shooting in Setersdal is exceedingly good ; 
ryper, black game, and hares are abundant, while the 
quantum of bears it yields is by no means insignificant, 
the annual average throughout this Amt being 2143. 
The scenery in this valley is very wild and romantic ; 
but the dirty habits of the Satersddlen (the inhabitant 
of a valley is called Délen) are proverbial, and have 
tended, almost as much as its previous inaccessibility, 
to render it comparatively an unknown district. 
BrRaTsBERG AMT. 
This Amt is bounded on the north and east by Buske- 
ruds Amt; on the east and south by Jarlsberg Amt 
and the sea; and on the west by Nedenes, and South 
Bergenhuus Amts. 
It is divided into three Fogderies—Nedre Thele- 
marken, Bamle, and Ovre Thelemarken ; and contains 
some of the most picturesque scenery in Norway. 
Being but a poor district, the accommodation to be 
met with is none of the best; and as poverty and dirt 
* The habits and customs of this peculiar people will be treated 
of in a separate chapter. 
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