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WILD NORWAY. 
One physical fact has already been mentioned—that 
one-half of Norway lies at an elevation of two thousand 
feet and upwards. I will venture to add the few 
following statistics, which are eloquent of the rugged, 
primaeval character of the land :— 
Cultivated and built on 
o per cent. 
Inland waters 
5 
Glaciers and ice-braes 
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Forests and fjelds occupied by saeters 
... 22 „ 
Unproductive fjeld ... 
... 67± „ 
Not even Spain, my first love 
100 
among wild lands. 
will compare with this. There the total area “ without 
cultivation of any kind ” reaches 42*8 per cent, of the 
whole superficies,* while in Norway the unproductive 
proportion is no less than seventy per cent. 
It will thus be seen that, small as Norway looks 
on the map, it is a big country to tackle. For it is 
all “ hunting ” ; with the exception of an insignificant 
three per cent., there is no break in the wild, and no 
obstructions to the hunter, such as corn-growing, cattle, 
and cultivation offer in more normal lands. 
II. Norway as a Sporting-Field. 
Regarded purely as a sporting country, Norway 
must be classed among the “ hard-rendering ” sort— 
that is, every head of game brought to bag therein 
represents a maximum of labour. Troutlets, it is true, 
may be “ chucked out ” in scores; but with large trout 
in large rivers the case is different, and some degree 
* See “Wild Spain,” p. 237. 
