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time to the chase. It may be added that the tohacco 

 pipe and the " braende-viin " bottle are their inseparable 

 concomitants. But in the southern parts of the country 

 we meet with a totally different race of people, viz., the 

 Gothic-Germanic. Their tall figures and fair features 

 at once proclaim their Caucasian extraction; and 

 wherever nature has not been on too imposing a scale, 

 nor has isolated them from contact with their fellow- 

 beings, they have to a greater or less degree kept pace 

 with the general development peculiar to European civi- 

 lizations. 



In their warm, moss-covered log-houses the Nor- 

 wegian peasants can defy the rudeness of the climate ; 

 and as they live frequently at long distances from 

 towns or villages they are very much thrown upon their 

 own resources to procure the necessaries of life. It is a 

 rarity not to find the spinning-wheel busily humming . 

 during the long winter evenings, and to see the men 

 carving useful or ornamental articles out of wood. 



As has been stated above, but a small proportion of 

 the country is adapted for agricultural purposes ; and 

 though the rich mountain pastures are well suited for 

 the maintenance of sheep and cattle during the brief 

 summer months ; and though the silver, iron, and copper 

 mines give employment to a fair number of hands in 

 those parts in which they are found ; and timber fell- 

 ing, and the care of the forest trees is, especially in the 



