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WILD NORWAY. 
cultivation. From foreground to horizon stretches one 
green monotony, unbroken by fence or field, unrelieved 
either by coppice or spinney, or by the gleam of water. 
The eye wearies with the ceaseless succession of barley 
and oats, clover and rye—fields one cannot call them, 
since no hedge marks a boundary ; nor, save where 
a few stunted poplars or maple surround some peasant’s 
A DANISH FA11M-HOTJSE. 
cot, is there a tree in sight. The land is cut up into 
little holdings of a few acres apiece, held by a peasant- 
proprietary whose straw-thatched homesteads, heavily 
timbered, stud the plain. 
The agricultural population must be called dense. 
Denmark, indeed, is fully developed on the “three acres 
.and a cow ” principle, and an ideal country if the minute 
