36 FORESTRY 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. 
