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gfefif * rhich gtraMj fe * yo # cl tbs limits of figrioultoint towirds tbe dense fqrests aad marshes pf the North . They , ltl ^ e th * forcttert possess farms and well-built houses . Their subsistence is acquired by selling the timber which they fell , and float down to the saw-mill by means of the mountain streams .
Hear whjch they always fix their habitations ; by feeding cattle , and b y selling game . The snow rernains over their territory till late ix \ the spring , and night-frosts set in as e ^ rly as August , The )? preaB is composed of the b ^ rk pf t }* e pine , 9 Uffs 4 ^ vitfc the ill-ripeped o « s they are % hle to grow j $ nd tliq troutof the Fjetde-lakes constitutes the principal p ^ rt pf their
^ food . They live a h ^ rd and laborious lifp , apd are described & $ ? ^ trpRor & q 4 active race , hg $ rjng in their coijiitenancej * ^ nd Pgiiries th ^ t $ Xy \ $ fcn 4 appegi ^ nce to yv \ i \ eh $ a $ y $ Jkfjr Laing , ** ws wq < BLQQV 8 tomod to attach the word pobla . " They retaia tl | e dress , mariners and character of ancient times , and some of the families , it is said , can trace their descent from the
days of Harold Haarfagre . The Laplanders , of whom many interesting particulars will be found in this work , traffic with them , giving venison and skins in exchange . The third class pf the population is the most numerous and important , and we fhould be guilty of injustice towards Mr Laing , did we X ) Qt give his own admirably ple ^ r and concise description .
^ The ) x > nder > or agrxcultucal peasantry , each the proprietor of his owp | farm , occupy the country from the shore side to the hill foot , and up eyejy vfl llpy ov glen , as far ^ is pp rn will grow- TJus class is the kfirnei of the nation . They are in general fine athletic men , as their properties , prp nQt so loxge as to exempt them frpm work , but large ei ^ oug | i to afford them and their households abundance , iind even superfluity , of tl ^ a best food . They farm not to raise produce for sale , so
much 4 s to grow everything they eat , drink , iuad wear in their families . xiiey build their own houses , make their own chairs , tables , ploughs , carts , harness , iron-work , basket-work , and wood-work ; in short , except the window-glass , cast-iron ware , and pottery , everything about their bouses and furniture is of their own fabrication . There is not ,
probably , in Europe 90 great a population in so happy a condition as this Norwegian yepjcnqnry , A bod y of s , mall proprietors , each with his thirty or forty acres , scarcely exists elsewhere in Europe ; or if it can be found , k if m ^ ier tl ^ sbwtaw of some more unposing body of wealthy proprietors qr compaercial n > en . Here they are the highest in the nation , The ,
population of the few ( owns is only reckoned about one-eleventh pf the whole , 91 * 4 ° f tilftt only a vary sma ) i proportion can be called rich ; too . few to have any influence on the habits or way qf thinking of the nation . # . ? They fbrm their little estates ^ and consume the produce , without seeking to barter or sell , except what is necessary for paying their taxes « n < J the few articles of luxury they consume . There is no money-Waging pirit ainong them , and none of extravagance . They enjoy the j * W % * ^ f px ^ lenl fafl ^»> 91 ffpod # « 4 large a $ thi > 6 # of the wealthiest wmtmttoi w « 4 % w * i » m towwwgi Iw ^ r , &&&& > # i , yv&Hi * m *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1836, page 658, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2663/page/6/
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