NORWAY. 
oe eer aia ought not to be fown in gardens before 
the y, and the frofts of the latter end of Augu 
are no S lefs detrimental. The heat and cold vary fo much in 
Norway, that in June or July the mercury in Fahrenheit’s 
thermometer ee unufually rifes at Sydeborg t to 88, and on 
elow _ 
110° between the greateft heat and greateft cold at the fame 
place; and this difference is much more confiderable than that 
at Upfal or Stockholm, which lie nearly in the fame latitude 
as Sydeborg. In fome places vegetation is fo quick, that 
corn is fown and cut in fix or feven weeks. 
y of the peafants 
covers the naked rocks and andy pet with a new earth ; 
yet the arable grounds are few, and no parts of Norway 
yield — corn for interior eontlingten, except the 
diftriats ten, and Ringerike. an 
ns induftry o of the farmer ; 
fo that in the moft favourable feafons, a confiderable impor- 
tation of corn is annually ne ceffary 5 but in unfavourable 
harvefts the utmoft dearth is experienced in the inland parts, 
as the tranfport of the corn from the ee is very ex- 
penfive. 
of ftoves. 
way, however deficient in arable land, is very rich 
and makes butter and cheefe on the {pot. 
the cattle are again paftured in the meadows, util the {now 
{ets in about the middle of OGober, when they are removed 
with hay during the winter, and are feldom fent to grafs = 
fore the beginning of June. In fome places the cattle are 
fed with falted fihh. 
Of late years agriculture has been improved in Norway, 
and of courfe the value of eftates has rifen nearly one-third. 
This melioration is principally owing to the exertions and 
encouragement of the Patriotic Society, which gives pre- 
miums for the beft improvements and inftru@tions in every 
part of farming. 
The fitheries, sadaraol| on the weftern coaft, furnith to 
° 
in value, as th vhich ufed to frequent’ the coa 
Norw ayy in their pire from the North pole, keep at a 
greater ea from the fhore, and thus by firft approaching 
the rocks of Maeftrund and Stroemftrand, the chief herring 
fhery has been transferred to che Swedes. Salmon is taken. 
partly in se bays, and partly in the rivers, as they afcend 
the ftream in {pring 
wegians hav ved a prejudice 
that fheate of on ‘fith often attack and devour the human 
fpecies waa bathing in the 
Norway is almoft wholly accipine country. The moun- 
tains of Teas Id eset: ae fouthern sc aoe of the 
grand chain that feparates it from Sweden. 
he 8.¥ Under the at 
lel of 61° the chain affumes the name M: Filifeld, followed 
by Sognefeld and Langfeld, which terminates a little be- 
yond the 62d degree of N. lat -~ hain now affumes a 
winding dire€tion from tc E. - this part, which is 
efteemed one of the hig helt, is flea Dofrafeld. After 
turning to the we arrive at the parts towards the 
parallel of Drontheim, which are generally reckoned the 
ace om ad ala Lapland the poeereee decline 
in ceffive names of this central portion are 
Rudfld, " Shersfeld, ‘and Galateld. Jornafeld and Be lr 
othe en 
and fom r loc appellations, are mentioned by 
serena name of the mountains of a which pafs linge 
the E. and S. of Danith n 
In a more general point of view, , the fouthern part of the 
Scandinavian chain, runnin 1g near rly N. and S. and terminating 
at the province of Kamfdal, is called “« Langfiall,” or the long 
mountains. FHlence the part called “ Dofrafiall’? extends 
towards the E., ending above the lake of Aurfund or Ore- 
fund, where it again proceeds almoft due N. Hence alfe a 
confiderable branch ee by Swakku, &c. towards 
its height above the fea to be gooo © fee he third 
part of the range from the N. of Orefund ane nice Mente of 
the copper-mines of Roras, is called the chain of « Kolen 
on 
ins has been v varioufly 
ima From fome late pneee we lean that the higheft 
in the diocefe of Drontheim are not more than 600 fathoms 
m the diftance of eight or ten Norwegian 
miles ; but to ne eaftern from that of 40. The higheft is 
Dovre-fial in Drontheim, and Tillein Bergen. Kinnakalle, 
2 Weftrogothia, is only 815 Englifh feet above the lake 
Vepern, 0 the fea. Arefkutan, a Pieris 
mountain of Jemptland, about four or five Swed miles 
from the higheft Alps, which feparate Norway and Sein. 
is faid to be 61 62 Englifh feet above the neareft river; Swac- 
1 above ¢t 
+ envvre 
e 
fea; and Sylfizllen, on the borders of oe : 31 3? feet 
perpendicular from the height to the bafe. con- 
ruction of the Norwegian amuiae thing ‘bloltely 
certain is known, as they not uch explored. 
Some of them confift of Tanditone, of the hae argilla- 
ceous, or calcareous kind. According to Bergman, many of 
the mountains of Norway are of pudd ding-ftone, fometimes of 
quartz ela crufted by a grey micaceous cement. Some 
are of hornblende flate in Tae garnets appear. This coun- 
pened with marble, and the lapis ollaris is found in 
ee aie fo that the cathedral of Drontheim ae 
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