NOR 
fto 
= and rock -cryttals are e iound of 
eauty, with talc, garnets, and amethytts. a ie a 
ona vein 
fchiftus, with garnets, ime tis one, and rtz. The 
richeft veins are in thofe of a greyifh quartz mingled with 
{mall black mica, and reddifh petrofilex ; but efpecially on 
a fine-grained shore qu gine and a little calcareous earth, 
are in Hrs ftrata. 
Thefe mines of 
5 ooladave 
s are cal- 
» and m and the native filver 
is alfo found in a aes rock (Goran), which may be re- 
garded as the top and bottom of the mine. The ape 
of the mines of Ko ong the, ne was made in 1623 by tw 
are in 
of Doft Thefe mines are very a and a ca 
of ae aren reven The co mines 
Quickne and Selboe, haut 50 miles E. a Drontheim, an 
at other places, as Meldal and Foledal. There are alfo mines 
“The Seems mountains are generally clothed with 
pines and firs; and almoft the whole country may be re- 
rded as a foreft, which fupplies Europe with mafts a 
Glee timber. e timber is applied to feveral purpofes, 
being exported in large quantities, =< ufed for fpars, beams, 
and planks, for building, as mo the h: ufes in Norway 
are conftruéted of wee 0: 
» and the inner is ap- 
e 
ployed for aaa ies ro 
ioe tanning hides, fifhing nets, 
plied like the bark o 
and fails. 
NORD 
Farth the N. is e of Femund, that of Selbo, 
and thofe of Beititadt and Snaafen. Th eft rivers are 
Hed Elven or Elben. e chief river of Norway is the 
Glom or Glomen, full of cataraéts and fhoals; it {prings 
from the lake of Orefund, and runs nearly S. about 300 
miles. Next to this is the Dramme, which flows into the 
bay of Chriftiania, not to mention the Louwen, the Torri- 
by Chriftianfand, and others flowing 
mong the ilgili hee ay 
m mall, eep, 
geats, fi ucks, mate "abies 
rein- don. bears, Ae wolves, hae aes gluttons, mar- 
tins, {quirrels, badgers, a ermines, beavers, porcu-~ 
pines, moles, rats, and m Of its birds we fhall mention 
only the elk or razor-biil, pedis to this country, and ufe- 
ful on account of its feathers, and the eider-duck, valued 
alfo for its feathers. It has great variety o fith. ee 
RAK 
The eneial exports of Norway are tallow, butter, falt, 
dried fith, timber and planks, horfes and horned cattle, filver, 
alum, Proffian blue, copper, and iron. 
fhips above 10 /afls belonging to Norway, in the year 17995 
as 747. The religion of this country is the Lutheran, 
e 
at the entrance of the gulf of Drontheim, the Vikten or Vikton 
iflands ; and t ie of Loffodee, noted for the whirlpool of 
Sel years the Norwegians held the ifles 
alre eady faid, = formerly an inde- 
pendent Eagles , ang, governed b own hereditary fove- 
reigns Its original population confit of Fins and Lap- 
landers ; and its fovereignty, originally founded in the S.E. 
und the modern city of Chriftiania, was 
10, became mafter of all Norway. 
Norway a ealand were converted to Chriftianity. 
the demife of Hagen or r Haken V. in 1319, without male 
iffue, his pele y in the female line, Magnus Smok, united 
the kingdoms of Sweden and Norway. Magnus was fucceeded 
on the throne of Norway by his fon a or Haken VI., 
a 
riage the three crowns of t 
death of her fon Olaf V. Marca afcended the — ot 
Denmark and Norway in 1387, and that of Sweden in 1 
On her death the crown crea oa to cid hufband, as ae 
w, Eric of Pomera- 
nia. 
tinued united to the crown shes Den 
See ENMARK and Sw 
ORWAY, a townhhip of ne York, in Herkemer county, 
eer in 1792, 7 containing 1911 inhabitants, — 
a poft-town in Cumberland county, Maine, incorpo-_ 
rate in n 19% having 609 inhabitants. 
way Rat, in Zoology. See 
NO! WICH, in Geography, a aa of Norfolk, Eng- 
land, is diftingmfhed in the commercial annals of Great 
Britain for its manufactures, and in the aaa us 
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