280 NATURAL HISTORY of N RWAY. 



Country. Tronhiem Chriftiania, and Bragnass, are the moil confiderable 

 trading cities of this kingdom, next to Bergen, whofe trade is very 

 confiderable to all parts of Europe, and brings in annually more 

 than 100,000 rixdollars duty on a moderate calculation. The 

 commodities or produce of the country which are exported from 

 Norway, are copper, both wrought and unwrought, Iron caft into 

 cannon, ftoves, and pots, or forged into bars, lead, though but 

 in fmall quantities, mafts, timber, deal-boards, planks, marble, 

 veeg-ftone, mill-ftones, feyl-ftones. Variety of fifh are alfo ex- 

 ported, as cod, herring, falmon, ling, flounders, and lobfters; 

 alfo cow-hides, fea-calf-fkins, goat-fkins, fome dreiled into cor- 

 duan leather, various kinds of coarfe and fine furs of bears, lofler, 

 vielfras, wolves, foxes, beavers, ermins, and martens; eider-down, 

 and other feathers; butter, tallow, train-oil, tar; juniper, and fe- 

 veral other forts of berries, and nuts; fait, allurn, glafs, vitriol, 

 and pot-afhes f . 



This nation has a genius for trade and navigation, though, as 

 has been obferved before, their fplendid manner of living in ibme 

 places is an obfbu&ion to it. We fend our youths abroad to 

 Englifh, French, and Dutch-merchants counting-houfes, to im- 

 prove themfelves, and learn the languages ; as fome young people 

 come here from the fame parts for a year or two for that purpofe. 



tradlT 110 Mechanic trades are not in any great vogue in Norway, becaufe 



the peafant, as I have before obferved, manufactures every thing 

 himfelf that he has occafion for, and does not want the affiftance 

 of any profeiTed mechanic. For this reafon, there are but two 

 cities in the heart of the country, which are Kongfberg, and 

 Roraas : all the reft are fituated on the coaft, becaufe they depend 

 entirely upon trade and commerce; only fome few mechanics are 

 daily employed in making neceiTary utenfils. All fine and curi- 

 ous works we choofe to import from England, or Holland, though 

 in thofe articles we begin to improve, and by degrees find the 

 advantage of it, efpecially in joiners and cabinet-makers work. 

 Agriculture is carry'd on by the farmers in all the provinces, 

 though not with equal diligence and advantage, according to the 

 difference of the foil, as has been fhewn before, in the chapter of 

 the growth and produce of this country. In the eaftern provinces, 



-J- All the above-named products of Norway, efpecially fifh, metals, and timber, 

 may, upon a well-grounded calculation, amount- to three million of rixdollars annually, 



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