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time to the chase. It may be added that the tobacco 
' pipe and the “‘ breende-viin”’ bottle are their inseparable 
concomitants. But in the southern parts of the country 
we meet with a totally different race of people, viz., the 
Gothic-Germanic. Their tall figures and fair features 
at once proclaim their Caucasian extraction; and 
wherever nature has not been on too imposing a scale, 
nor has isolated them from contact with their fellow- 
beings, they have to a greater or less degree kept pace 
with the general development peculiar to European civi- 
lizations. 
In their warm, moss-covered log-houses the Nor- 
wegian peasants can defy the rudeness of the climate ; 
and as they live frequently at long distances from 
towns or villages they are very much thrown upon their 
own resources to procure the necessaries of life. Itisa 
rarity not to find the spinning-wheel busily humming 
during the long winter evenings, and to see the men 
carving useful or ornamental articles out of wood. 
As has been stated above, but a small proportion of 
the country is adapted for agricultural purposes; and 
though the rich mountain pastures are well suited for 
the maintenance of sheep and cattle during the brief 
summer months ; and though the silver, iron, and copper 
mines give employment to a fair number of hands in 
those parts in which they are found; and timber fell- 
ing, and the care of the forest trees is, especially in the 
