FISHING IN NORWAY. 



CHAPTER IX. 



FEOM DHONTHEIM TO THE NORTH CAPE. 



Mild Climate of the Norwegian Coast,— Its Causes. — The Norwegian Peasant. — ^Norwegian Constitution. — 

 Romantic coast Scenery.— Drontheim.—Greiffenfeld Holme and Vare.— The Sea-eagle.— The Herring- 

 fisheries.— The Lofoten Islands.— The Cod-fisheries.—Wretclied Condition of the Fishermen.— Tromso- 

 — Altenfiord.— The Copper Mines.— Hammerfest the most northern Town in the World.— The North 

 Cape. 



OF all the lands situated either within or near the Arctic Circle none enjoys 

 a more temperate climate than the Norwegian coast. Here, and nowhere 

 else throughout the northern world, the birch and the fir-tree climb the mount- 

 ain-slopes to a height of 700 or 800 feet above the level of the sea, as far as the 



