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NORWAY 



Many eminent literary men of his day were 

 his intimate friends; among these were Ruskin, 

 Emerson, Lowell, Carlyle, G. W. Curtis, Long- 

 fellow and Fitzgerald, and of all except the 

 last two he was literary executor. 



NORWALK, nawr'wawk, CONN., a summer 

 resort with industrial interests, located in Fair- 

 field County, in the extreme southwestern part 

 of the state. It is on the Norwalk River and 

 on Long Island Sound, fourteen miles south- 

 west of 'Bridgeport and forty miles northeast 

 of New York City. The New York, New 

 Haven & Hartford Railway and interurban 

 lines serve the city, and it has steamboat con- 

 nection with New York City. The population 

 of Norwalk increased from 24,211 in 1910 to 

 26,899 in 1916 (Federal estimate). Its area of 

 seventeen square miles includes the villages of 

 East and West Norwalk, Winnepauk, Roway- 

 ton and the cities of Norwalk and South Nor- 

 walk, all of which consolidated in 1913 to form 

 the present city. 



Though Norwalk is a beautiful residential 

 city, with excellent facilities for sailing, boating, 



bathing and golfing, it is also an industrial cen- 

 ter. The oyster interests are important, and 

 the coast trade is considerable. Straw goods, 

 li;it>. tVlt goods, wearing apparel and machinery 

 are manufactured extensively, and the city has 

 :i variety of lesser products. Norwalk has a 

 state armory, two Carnegie libraries, the Fair- 

 field County Children's Home and Norwalk 

 Hospital. A feature of interest in the city is 

 the drinking fountain erected by the Daughters 

 of the American Revolution in memory of 

 Nathan Hale, who obtained here his disguise 

 of a Dutch schoolmaster and loyalist before he 

 was taken as a spy by the British. 



The site of Norwalk was purchased in 1640 

 by Roger Ludlow and Daniel Patrick. The 

 first settlement was made in 1649, and the place 

 was incorporated as a town in 1651, South Nor- 

 walk being included. In November, 1779, it 

 was burned and plundered by the British under 

 Generals Tryon and Garth. Norwalk was in- 

 corporated as a borough in 1836 and received 



its charter as a city in 1893. 



Consult Selleck's Norwalk. 



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I OR WAY, the most democratic king- 

 dom of Europe, occupies the western part of 

 the Scandinavian Peninsula (see colored map 

 of Europe following page 2092). It is a narrow 

 strip of rugged country, bounded on the west 

 and north by the Atlantic and the Arctic oceans, 

 and on the south by the Skagerrak, an arm of 

 the North Sea. Archangel, Finland and Sweden 

 adjoin it on the east. Nearly one-third of the 

 kingdom lies within the realm of the "midnight 

 sun," and Cape Nordkyn, the most northerly 

 point of the European mainland, is Norwegian 

 soil. In some places in the north the country 

 is only twenty miles across, but it widens to 

 260 miles near the south -end. Having an area 

 of 124,129 square miles, Norway is a little larger 

 than the state of New Mexico, or England, 

 Ireland and Scotland combined. 



The People. The tall, hardy blonds of Nor- 

 way are descended from a people who originally 



came from the Caucasian Mountains. A short, 

 dark race also inhabited the peninsula at an 

 early age and the darker types are descendants 

 of these people. The Norwegians are widely 

 known for their honesty, simplicity and kind- 

 liness. From their brave Viking ancestors they 

 inherit their fearlessness and love of the sea. 

 In no other European country is society so 

 democratic. There are no privileged classes 

 and no orders of nobility, and in no other 

 country are there so many great statesmen, 

 professional men and scientists of peasant birth. 



The picturesque national dress of Norway is 

 now seen only at holiday festivals, in museums 

 and in a few of the rural communities, and the 

 quaint Norwegian architecture of early times 

 survives only in the old Stav churches. 



About two-thirds of the emigrants of Norwe- 

 gian birth live in the Northwestern states of 

 the American Union. The emigration from 



