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men belong to this class. The value of the Norwegian 

 forests has been estimated at £22,000,000 sterling. 

 Including those employed in match-making, preparing 

 the birch-bark for paper, etc., from sixty to seventy 

 thousand j)ersons are supported by industries connected 

 with the tree- felling. The annual value of the exportation 

 of wood from Norway is about two and a quarter millions. 



The traveller may be left to himself to discover the 

 peculiarities of Norwegian life ; the appearance of the 

 houses ; their position and size ; the people, their dress 

 and their food ; the modes of conveyance by land and 

 by water ; only remembering what we have already said 

 which touches these subjects, and adding thereto the 

 following incidental observations which may direct his 

 attention to some points which he would otherwise have 

 missed. 



His guide-books will have explained to him the 

 method of inland conveyance by posting. The pre- 

 sent system of posting dates from the year 1816, at 

 which time a law was passed creating what are called* 

 the ' fast ' stations (properly fixed stations — Faste 

 Stationer) on certain routes. At these stations (certain 

 specified farmhouses) the farmer is compelled to keep 

 horses in constant readiness for use in posting, for 

 wliich service he is indemnified at a rate fixed by 

 the State. The conveyances used in this inland post- 

 ing are of three kinds, the well-known cariole or kariol, 

 a two-wheeled conveyance for one person only, the 

 stoll-jcerre, which is only an enlarged cariole fit for hold- 

 ing two persons, and the vogn, which is a four-wheeled 

 conveyance resembling a smaller fly or drosky. 



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