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 cual, 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 
