8 FORESTRY OF NORWAY, 
neat painted and clean, might be seen, or an island where 
there was none but the highway of the sea,as if man were 
only beginning to appear upon the earth. 
Tn travelling thus far one meets chiefly with a stalwart 
race of yeomen, presenting very much the same general 
appearance as do Americans in rural districts in the 
United States, or as do substantial Dutch boors in the 
inland districts of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope. 
But in’ Christiania there is a museum of Scandinavian 
curiosities, amongst which are life-size figures of Nor- 
wegian peasants in picturesque national costumes, which 1 
had previously seen do good service’ at one of the Inter- 
national Exhibitions, either that at Paris in 1867, or that 
at Vienna in 1873—and which have been secured for 
permanent exhibition here. I may mention in passing 
that I was struck with the resemblance of many of the 
Norwegians of all classes, both men and women, to 
personal friends of my own in Scotland. I have named a 
dozen, and might have named scores of friends whose 
figure, gait, and countenance I found completely repro- 
duced ; and I have never found this in other lands, 
