A Geographical View of the World Author:Richard Phillips Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 10 Different Classes of Norway. NORWAY. - Aorway is bounded W. and N. by the Atlantic ocean; E. by Russia and Sweden; and S. by the Skager Rack. It extends... more » from the Naze in lat. 58 N. to the North cape in lat. 71 11 N. The number of square miles is estimated at 161,000. Population 930,000 Population on a square mile, 6. f Different Classes in Norway. Th£ Norwegians being the same race with the Danes, speak the same language with a mixture of provincial expressions. The inhabitants of the eastern confines bordering on Sweden, naturally blend with their own language many Swedish words and phrases, aud the g-eneral accent and cadence through the whole country are more analogous to the Swedish than to the Danish pronunciation. The Norwegians are highly esteemed for their bravery, and, like the Swiss mountaineers, are exceedingly attached to their country. The horses which supply the cavalry are small, but strong, active, and hardy. They are so illiterate, that in the whole of Norway there is not one single bookseller's shop. The Norwegian farmers have no great stock of cattle, because they do not cultivate land sufficient to raise hay to support them during the winter, which is of seven or eight months duration. In the summer, pasturage is very abundant; but if their stock of cattle is large, they are obliged either to kill them on the approach of winter, or to take them to market. The greatest part of the country round the principal towns belongs to the inhabitants of these towns, who consume a considerable portion of their productions. Farther in the country, the peasant chooses rather to employ himself in felling trees, which he sells to the sawing-mills, than to be at the trouble of cultivating the ground, and thus to procure a subsistence. The Norwegian peas...« less