76 SPORT IN NORWAY. 
hospitable; and, as a class, are much more lively in 
their manners than their brethren from other parts 
of the country, insomuch that they are called “the 
Frenchmen of Norway.” 
The accommodation to be met with throughout 
Osterdalen is very superior to that found in the western 
parts of the country, both as regards general cleanliness 
and fare. | 
The same may also be said of the seters, which in 
many districts are so extremely dirty, and so thickly 
inhabited by lively creatures of all sorts, as to render 
a stay in them extremely precarious. 
The general scenery in this province is not im- 
posing: there are no fosses or picturesque valleys to 
charm the traveller, though the interminable forest 
tracts present to the eye a majestic appearance not 
to be found elsewhere. It is probably owing to this 
circumstance that Hedemarken has, comparatively, been 
but little visited; travellers to the north generally 
selecting the more picturesque route of the Dovre 
Fyeld. 
But in point of trout-fishing and general shooting 
combined, I should decidedly give the palm to this 
Amt before any other in the whole of Norway. 
It would, in my opinion, be quite worth the tra- 
veller’s while to select this route either on going to or 
returning from the north. Neither need the scenery 
