CHAPTER II. 



FOREST SCENES. 



FROM Christiania I took a trip towards Drammen, and 

 saw what Norway is under cultivation ; and a journey 

 towards Aarnaes and Charlottenburg gave me, in the first 

 part of that journey, an opportunity of seeing under cloud 

 and rain, Norway in a similiar condition to that of our 

 moorland districts in Britain. As if the former trip had 

 shown what the earth was when the earth was young 

 inhabitated by man and cultivated, but young this seemed 

 to show what appearance the earth puts on in old age ; 

 and in journeying from Aarnes towards Charlottenburgh I 

 found yet another aspect presented. 



There are extensive districts in the vicinity of Glasgow, 

 of Newcastle, and of Durham, where it appears to be 

 coal, coal, coal, and iron and coal, but chiefly coal, which 

 constitute there the one article of transport and products 

 of the locality. 



In America, again, in travelling through the so-called 

 oil district lying between Pittsburg and the eastern shores 

 of Lake Ontario, it is oil, oil, oil, oil everywhere, what 

 seem interminable trains of waggons, but oil cisterns all 

 of them, and pipes like large water pipes or drain pipes 

 all conveying oil. 



Here it is wood, wood, wood, or perhaps I should say 

 timber, timber and wood, everywhere. Wood by the road- 

 side, trucks laden with wood, wood piled at the stations 

 and on the fields, and last of all a river covered with 

 wood and floating timber, 



This is the Glommen, here a broad river, and apparently 



