VEGETABLE PRODUCTIONS OF NORWAY. 257 
At a later period, when the spirit of the age became 
changed, the former manner of living altered too; but 
not even then did the sea become a less important 
means of national prosperity than before. On the 
contrary, its extensive fisheries along the western coast, 
added to the increasing commerce which year by year 
augmented, and is augmenting still, have proved to the 
country an inexhaustible mine of comparative wealth.* 
The Norwegian has an innate love for commerce ; 
while a hardier, more daring sailor than the Norwegian 
fisherman cannot possibly be found. 
The Scandinavian now-a-days, as before, often 
wanders far away from his native land; but that love 
for the home of his birth, which is so exquisitely 
expressed in the words of King Harald :—“ Jeg sporger 
de smaa Fugler hver en Morgen, som flyve did—vil 
I vel hilse Dovre fra Harald Harderaade,”+ has by no 
means died out, and the recollection of the noble hills 
and grand valleys of “‘gamle Norge” never fails to 
touch a chord in his heart, so as often to excite the 
astonishment of the foreigner.} 
* Next to England and France, the mercantile navy of Norway is 
greater than that of any other European country. 
+ “Task the small birds every morning as they fly thither—Will 
ye salute Dovre from Harald Harderaade ?” 
~ A portion of the above remarks has been collated from a work 
by Dr. Schiibeler, Conservator of the Botanical Gardens at Chris- 
tiania, entitled ‘Die Cultur pflanzen Norwegens.’ For a further 
account of this work the reader is referred to a review which I wrote 
for the April number of ‘ The Journal of Botany, British and 
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