TO THE SEA. 



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used/' said I ; " and we shall be glad, on a 

 future occasion, to hear exactly how these are 

 constructed and used ; but I fear that one of 

 those vehicles would make more haste than 

 good speed down the sides of a Norwegian 

 mountain, supposing it could, by any process, 

 be drawn up it." 



I will endeavour," said Mr. Longhurst, 

 to explain the modes of conveyance adopted, 

 which I have myself seen. Pine forests are 

 not usually so low and level as this small plan- 

 tation of mine. The sides of rugged hills, and 

 the brow of many a giddy precipice, are clothed 

 with the finest fir timber. On the southern 

 shores of the Baltic, indeed, the river Memel 

 conveys, without much difficulty, the timber 

 there produced, to the sea, as the bed of that 

 river, and the surrounding country, are free 

 from any particular declivities. But, not long 



