SCANDINAVIA 



By sir henry POTTINGER 



Norway. 



SCANDINAVIA, which for the purpose of this article may be 

 held to mean Sweden and Norway, is a country natural!) 

 adapted for proN'idini;- a vast and varied amount of 

 wild sport. Taking" Norway by itself, as beinj^" that 

 portion of the peninsula which presents the grandest sporting char- 

 acteristics, we find that even at the present day not more than two 

 per cent, of its total area is 

 under any kind of cultivation, 

 and that the bulk of this per- 

 centage is massed together in 

 a few southern provinces ; that 

 a fifth part of it is still covered 

 with forests, and that the re- 

 mainder consists of barren up- 

 lands, gigantic mountain ranges, 

 and vast extents of glacier and 

 snowfield, which, if they are 

 not in any marked degree conducive to sport, indicate at any rate 

 the generally wild and unreclaimed character of the land and the 



glorious scenery which the sportsman penetrates in his wanderings. 



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BUI-L ELK (NORWAY) 



Eighteen Points 



