NORWAY. 
New York and the Welt Indies, and contains 5146 inha- 
<n LK Jflands, a clufter of {mall iflands in Long Ifland 
found, near ar coalt of Conneticut. N. lat. 41° 4’ 
long. 72 22'. 
NOR RWAY, anciently Norrik, or the Northern oe 
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chain of mountains under 
ahich feparates it from Sweden. 
have aye preciely afcertained. Geographers have dif- 
fered about its se northward, and, therefore, fome have 
made its length 11 aes and others have ftated it at 750 
miles, its breadth aa 170, and its area in {quare miles 71,400. 
Its cap pital has been either Bergen or Chriftiana, which fee. 
Norway is formed by nature into two o great divifions, viz. 
Northern, and Southern or Proper Norway, py ne from 
each other by the fmall Swedifh province of Herndahl. 
Northern Norway is along and narrow flip of land, Sead 
rge 
and B favou rable aaa the 
rrefpond t 
Ca 
of the 
Danes, They are in ‘general robuit and brave, but irritable 
and refentful; the wo are handfome and courteous; and 
the Norwegian forms, “both of living and of enjoying pro- 
are mild, and much refemble ay of the Saxon an 
inhabita nt is an 
n Norway there are few, who 
by rofeffion are a ee “fhoemae ers, taylors, aie 
weavers, carpenters, {miths, —e joi 
Every peafant, few excepted, in Money breathes the air 
of freedom. This freedom they derive from a particular 
code, called the *«¢ Norway male ar aie by pele eg 
the command of Chriftian V 
thee ferfs the fpirit of the fame - comm sapere its in- 
fluence; for no proprietor can have more than one of thefe 
privileged eftates, and ees he soles Ge a or certain 
on his eftate, he lofes hie privilege, and 
the peafants become fre ee. The benefits of this code, fays 
r. Coxe, are fo vifible in its general effets on the happi- 
ef and in the appearance of the peafants, that a traveller 
mutt be blind, who does not perceive the difference between 
a free peafants of Norway, and the enflaved vaflals of 
mark, on to their ne though both 
living under the fame government. the ig ae 
deriye their ieee from the ancient nebles, and fom 
fants, called “ Odel’s’? or “ Odhel’’ right, fee that ne 
The Norwegian peafants, fays the author now cited, pof- 
fefs much fpirit and fire in their manner ; they are frank and 
undaunted, but not infolent; never fawning 0 n their fupe- 
riors, and yet paying proper a ae to thofe ‘above them 
Their eae mode of ae s by offering their hand, 
t e 
and they return thanks he not by words or a 
cae ut by fhaking hand mri great franknefs and cor- 
dialit The peafants are well clothed and well lodged, 
ornamented with rich button-holes and metal buttons. The 
women, when employed in their houfhold affairs, frequently 
ore ar only in a petticoat and fhift, ne a collar reaching 
o the throat and a fafh tied round the w Their linen 
is very fine, an 
Altho ous h their dr 
in many inftances, to an advanced age. The commo 
of the peafant is milk, cheefe, dried and falted fith, and 
fometimes, but rarely, flefh or dried meat, oatmeal called 
) 
aa lux Sia, the eee eat “ fh r thin 
meat {prinkled with falt, and dried in the wind, like hun ng 
beef ; zl a foup made hke hafty-pudding of oat-meal, or 
barley-m which is renderend palatable, by adding a 
pickled fenine or falted mackerel. 
een n 
{carcity, the mofles 
and lichens, and particularly the ‘lichen iflandicus,’’ which 
a na ng fuftenance, and is commonly “ufed for 
ood in 
° Nor wegians maintain their own army, which con 
_ a suse infantry and 6000 cavalry. he troops are 
med for ne Leth and like the Swifs moun- 
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i a 
which fupply th 
hardy. Every peafant 
noble eftate, and thofe on the coaft, w 
excepted, is by birth a foldier, and eral d 
xteen. From that year he continues 
arrives at thirty-fix, when he receives hi ‘dife charge. 
militia take the field every year in 
orway can faraiih about 14,000 
This country contributes to the annual 
at the age of 
o ferve until he 
The 
way, it varies according to its 
extent, and its pofition aie the fea, Extending along 
the well fide of the Scandinavian Riss ande expofed to the 
vapours from the pei it is not fo cold as we mi 
peo and the eg ac of May in Norway, and the March 
f Norway is our January. On account of the a 
{pring 
