8 FORESTRY OF NORWAV. 



neat painted and clean, might be seen, or an island where 

 there was none but the highway of the sea, as if man were 

 only beginning to appear upon the earth. 



In travelling thus far one meets chiefly with a stalwart 

 race of yeomen, presenting very much the same general 

 appearance as do Americans in rural districts in the 

 United States, or as do substantial Dutch boors in the 

 inland districts of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope. 

 But in Christiania there is a museum of Scandinavian 

 curiosities, amongst which are life-size figures of Nor- 

 wegian peasants in picturesque national costumes, which 1 

 had previously seen do good service at one of the Inter- 

 national Exhibitions, either that at Paris in 1867, or that 

 at Vienna in 1873 and which have been secured for 

 permanent exhibition here. I may mention in passing 

 that I was struck with the resemblance of many of the 

 Norwegians of all classes, both men and women, to 

 personal friends of my own in Scotland. 1 have named a 

 dozen, and might have named scores of friends whose 

 figure, gait, and countenance I found completely repro- 

 duced j and I have never found this in other lands. 



