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feet above the sea; thereafter they take a plateau form, 

 but are very often broken by water courses or bogs. The 

 whole region is thereby in a large degree of that cut or 

 broken character which one can readily obtain an illustra- 

 tion of by ascending one of the principal heights. The 

 highest and only actually barren-topped mountain in the 

 company's forest is Harfjellet, 2,200 feet above the sea. 

 Another, Tonnet mountain, 1,700 feet above the sea, is 

 called a "fjell" (barren-topped or snow-covered moun- 

 tain), but it is not actually that, for it is partly forest- 

 covered. 



Agriculture takes a subordinate place; the land most 

 suitable for cultivation is generally along the banks of the 

 larger streams. About 700 persons occupy small farms 

 as tenants and are obliged to produce certain quantities 

 of charcoal, in general 6,600 bushels each, and in all 

 4,620,000 bushels. They are also obliged to transport 

 the coal to the works. Besides, there are several hun- 

 dred forest laborers with smaller premises on which one 

 of two cows and several smaller animals are fed. About 

 14,000 persons live and gain their livelihood on the com- 

 pany's property. 



About 3,000 acres (2,700 to 3,000 "tunnland"; one 

 tunnland being equal to 1.22 acres) are consumed or cut 

 over annually; though it is not easy to say just how much, 

 because clean cutting and selection cutting (cutting only 

 the larger trees) are both practiced. On an average 

 every tunnland (1.22 acres) ought at the end of every 

 rotation period 120 years for pine and 90 years for 

 spruce yield from 4,000 to 4, 500 cubic feet of lumber. 



The forest is handled by means of cutting trees that 

 hinder the growth of others or which are themselves de- 

 fective (' 4 hjelp och rensningsgallringar"), and thinning to 

 admit light ("ljushuggningar"), consisting of two to three 

 careful timber cuttings with an interval of 15 to 20 years, 



