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JOURNEY TO BORG AFIORD. 
explanation that in the greater number of in¬ 
stances they are to be understood as the appel¬ 
lations of mere farmsand never of what in 
England would be entitled to be called a village. 
The present place, which, if I recollect well, 
bears the name of Farit , stands in a singular 
and interesting situation; being near the head 
of Hval-fiord, so that from it we had a noble 
and extensive view of this arm of the sea, on 
which were innumerable quantities of the black 
divers (Colymbus Troile) and many flocks of 
swans. From the agitated surface of the water 
the violence of the wind raised great bodies of 
spray, which were driven, like a dense mist, 
into a valley that opened to the south. In an 
opposite direction, and near the extremity of the 
* “Lands are here divided into estates, which are never 
“ subdivided, and are held in three different kinds of tenure: 
“ King’s Land, 
“ Church Land, and 
“ Freehold. 
tc King's land is given by the Landfogued to whomsoever 
he pleases, and the family who occupy it possess it as long 
6f as they have an heir and can pay the rent, which is very 
“ small, and a tax of one rix-dollar per annum. 
“ Church land is given away by the Bishop and Ampt- 
“ man, and held in the same manner. 
“ Freehold is as in other countries, each estate paying one 
“ rix-dollar per annum to the King, in lieu of land-tax.” 
Sir Joseph Banks' MSS. Journal. 
