36 fc)Rfegh& OF NORWAY. 



good dinner. The next day we breakfasted in Drammen, 

 and in baking heat, and stifling dust, traversed the 

 civilised country between that city and Christiania.' 



The peculiar feature of the physical geography of the 

 country, thus brought under consideration, gives character 

 to the exploitation of the forests, in connection with the 

 bringing out of the timber, as will afterwards be detailed. 



