40 FORESTRY OF NORWAY. 
Theophrastus calls Aale, Pliny calls Abies, and Linnzus 
Pinus picea, while the tree that Pliny calls Picea, which is 
our spruce fir, is named by Linnzus Pinus abies. ‘This 
tree is found principally,’ writes Dr. Broch, ‘in the eastern 
portion of the country and in the diocese of Droutheim. 
On the west coast it is now met with growing wild to the 
south of 62° N., but it is found in plantations in many 
other places. It is only in the interior of Hordaland at 
Mo, an annex of Hosanger, 60° 48’ N.; and at Voss 66, 
38’ N., that it is met with in a wild state. To the north 
of Cape Stat it is found along with the pine even 
on the islands along the coast to 65° N. lat.; beyond 
that it becomes more rare; and it ceases to form forests 
somewhere near the Arctic Circle. In east Finmark, on 
the contrary, it is found in Syd-Varanger, near the lake 
Kjolmejare, 69° 30’ N. lat.; but in separate trees or in 
quite small groups. In certain localities in southern 
Norway the fir attains on mountains almost the same 
elevation as the pine, but, as a generai rule, its limitation 
of vegetation is from 60 to 100 metres below the limit of 
that tree. 
‘In Southern Norway the pine and the fir attain to their 
greatest dimensions, but continually the trees of great size 
are becoming every year more rare, in consequence of the 
felling of the large trees increasing with the improvement 
of roads, and of means of transport. In illustration of the 
magnitude attained, there was felled some years ago at 
Lom, in Nordre-Gulbrandsdalen, 61° 53’ N., at an 
elevation of 560 metres, a pine, the trunk of which 
near the ground had a diameter of 1:2 metre, 4 
feet, and a diameter of 0°5 metre, 20 inches, at a 
height of 16 metres, or 53 feet 4 inches. At Nordre- 
Aurdal, and Valders, 60° 57’ N., there stand still two pines 
called the Svesterfuruer, or Sister Pines, of which the 
larger, measured in 1864, had a height of 28 metres, 93 
feet 4 inches, and a diameter of 1 metre, 40 inches, at the 
height of 1 metre from the ground. In Northern Norway, 
