BA FORESTRY OF NORWAY. 
‘ A little before reaching Ovne, or Aune station, there 
‘were some of the most magnificent banks of pansies I ever 
beheld. ‘Several patches of above a hundred square yards 
were covered with an unbroken carpet of these beautiful 
little flowers, the variety, richness, and harmony of their 
colours were most exquisite; they saturated the atmo- 
sphere around with a delicious aroma, which was almost 
intoxicating in its concentration. Ilay down upon them 
‘and slept for an hour or two, the sunbeams poured upon 
me with a roasting heat, the rooks were cawing above, and 
the river tumbling below, though yesterday and this 
‘morning it was freezing, and the snow patches were still 
visible in all the hollows of the craggy rocks above. I 
‘dreamed of Oriental vapour baths, otto of roses, and 
beautiful primroses just imported from the snowy 
‘ Caucasus, and selling in Covent Garden for a few shillings 
‘per dozen.’ 
Schneehaettan is visible near Staen, about fifteen 
miles below the place where Murray speaks of it. It is 
a more picturesque object from this point than from the 
~Dovre fjeld. A number of other snowy peaks are also 
‘visible. Lakes are pretty numerous in Norway, but they 
‘are comparatively small. While in Sweden there are 34 
lakes of more than 100 square kilometres in size, in 
Norway there are only 52 which exceed 25 square kilo- 
metres. The superfices of all the lakes of Norway is 7600 
square kilometres, or 2'4 per cent. of the whole area of the 
country, while in Sweden lakes constitute 10 per cent. of 
‘the area of the country. They abound most in Southern 
Norway. There, in eight prefectures, is found-one-half of 
the superficies of the lakes of the whole country; and they 
constitute 4 per cent. of the area of these prefectures. 
‘Many of the Norwegian lakes are of considerable depth, 
so much so, that over wide districts the bottom is below 
the level of the sea. Sometimes even they are deeper 
than are the greater adjacent fiords. Thus the great lake 
of Norway—the Miosen—has a depth of 457 metres, even 
in the low water of winter. Its surface is then only 121 
