THE ELK IN NORWAY. uo i 
of any country. Mr. Asbjérnsen instances a case in 
point, where the elk was formerly numerous, and is 
now non inventus. And that is in the Aland Isles, 
where, “ during the Finnish war, they were so plentiful 
that the army was provisioned with elk venison instead 
of beef.” 
During the last twenty years, however, elk-deer have 
been steadily on the increase, not only owing to the 
protection afforded them by the law, but because they 
have abandoned the more northerly and easterly dis- 
tricts for quarters where the wolf has not been in such 
large numbers. And though many have been, espe- 
cially during the last few winters, shot at unlawful 
times, yet the indignation that was then evinced, and 
the publicity that was given to the cases, have done 
a good deal towards stopping this poaching. 
A few years ago, elk were numerous in the Trysil 
forests, which adjoin Sweden. But so were the wolves ; 
and these committed such havoc amongst them as to 
drive them more to the westward. 
Besides Namdal, and some other places in Throndh- 
jem Stift (diocese), elk-deer may almost always be 
found throughout Osterdal, in Solérs, on the borders 
of Sweden, in the valley of the Glommen, Odal, Vingers, 
and in some of the forests of Romerige and Smaale- 
nene. . 
They are not unfrequently seen in the forests near 
