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CHAPTER XXYIII. 



The Climate of Norway. Its Effect on Vegetation. Wild Berries. 

 Vegetables . Trees . Minerals . 



THE short Norwegian summer is oppressively hot, 

 while the long and dreary winter is cold in proportion. 

 The climate is, however, by no means unhealthy, and 

 suits Englishmen very well, whose constitutions are 

 not delicate. In winter, the cold here is intense. In 

 the northern parts of the Scandinavian peninsula the 

 glass often marks 40 below the zero of Fahrenheit. 

 It is a peculiarity of this intense cold that it is not 

 felt so much as one might suppose, unless a person is 

 travelling or walking quickly. The cold appears to 

 have the power of freezing the wind ; and were it not 

 for the appearance of ice and snow in all directions, 

 people would hardly know that the weather was so 

 cold. When the atmosphere is in this state, although 

 the cold is not so perceptible as one might think, yet 

 if a person were to ascend to the top story of a house, 

 and throw down from thence a basin of warm water, 

 it would be a lump of ice by the time it reached the 

 ground. 



