Sport in Norway, and where to Find it: Together with a Short Account of the Vegetable Productions of the Country. To which is Added, a List of the Alpine Flora of the Dovre Fjeld and of the Norwegian Ferns, &c |
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abounds ALPINA attains average number bear-hunters Bears fruit Bergen birch-limit birds Bruin Buskeruds Christiania Christiansand common corn cultivated districts Dombaas Dovre Dovre Fjeld Draba alpina Drivdal Drivdalen Drivstuen East Finmark especially extremely Finmark fir-limit fishing Fjord Flowers Fogstuen forest Foss Gaard Gederyggen Glommen Grows wild Gudbrandsdal Hallingdal Harbakken Hardanger height higher altitude hunter hunting inches Jerkin Jotun killed Knudshoë Kongsvold lake larger willows larvæ limit of birch limit of fir miles moss mountain Namsen nearly neighbourhood Nordland north as lat Norway Norwegian occasionally places in Drivdal plant Professor Blytt quantity rare reindeer remarkable Rendalen ripen road Romsdal Rustgaard ryper Sæters Sætersdal peasant salmon scarcely shady places shooting shot side small river snow sport square miles station steamer Stift stream summer Tofte tree trout-fishing Vaarstien valley Vand Varanger Fjord variety VULGARIS western coast whole Fjeld winter
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Page 28 - It was caught on a number six or seven hook ; wings, two golden tippets dyed crimson, sprigged with mallard, teal, golden pheasant, and Argus pheasant ; horns, blue macaw ; head, black ; body, claret pig's wool ; tag, red mohair, ribbed gold twist.
Page 129 - ... the animal cast such a look at him that he was obliged to turn aside till it was dead. Meanwhile, the second elk, as is often the case, had returned to look after its companion. Here was a chance ! Two elks in one day is not such a despicable bag to one gun. But the ordeal through which his nerves had recently passed had completely upset him, so that he could not find in his heart to shoot it. Then and there he made a solemn vow that as long as he lived he would never raise gun any more against...
Page 252 - ... contribution as such, but one striking thing is that in all parts of the country Christians are in leading positions in the organizations bearing the burden of relief of suffering, and Christian institutions and personnel are carrying a large share of the actual work. This is the more remarkable when it is borne in mind that the members of the Protestant churches number only one out of each thousand of the population.
Page 89 - ... spelling the word, therefore, reader, free your minds from any alarm on that score. The wild reindeer may be found on the high fjelds of Norway, as far south as latitude 60 deg., wherever the altitude is above the limit of the willow and the birch, viz., about three thousand four hundred feet. They are more numerous in the west and south-west of the mountain plateaux than in the north-east, probably owing to the absence of Lapps in those parts, who hunt them whenever and wherever they can. Neither...
Page 57 - ... or jagir. As this fortress, in the district of Sorath, came into the power of the imperial government, the author will here insert what is necessary to be known regarding this country, and the appellation of Junagarh. This territory is bounded on the south and west by the sea ; on the east by the Zillah of Jhalawar ; and on the north by the boundaries of the provinces of Thattah, where the black soil of the hills and stony grounds become so swampy after a little rain that one can with difficulty...
Page 97 - Their food at this time consists almost entirely of reindeer moss and other lichens. Occasionally they descend into the regions of the birch and willow, to eat the bark from the trees ; but in spring they commence to migrate downwards from their lofty altitudes to visit the grassy dales in the vicinity of the saeters, while further on in the summer they may often be seen grazing in the valleys between the high fjelds. Occasionally they may be seen in early summer grazing quietly amongst the cattle....
Page 159 - ... has gone bear-slaving through the forest days together and seen nothing but a capercalzie rising a hundred yards out of shot ;" then a visit to Norway will amply repay him, both as regards body and mind. But if, on the other hand, he expects to make a large bag of grouse, and will be disappointed if he cannot kill, at least, his twenty brace a day, and fall in with a bear or two, and kill sundry reindeer, and perhaps an elk, then by all means let him stay at home. Norway is essentially a country...
Page 96 - ... is a hunter, some of whom kill as many as fifty head per annum (not unfrequently ten on a single excursion), it cannot be computed at less than between two and three thousand yearly. Such being the case, there must at least be from twenty to thirty thousand wild reindeer in Norway, in order to admit of such a yearly diminution. Perhaps it would be nearer the mark to estimate it at nearly double this number; for it is hard to suppose that one in every ten is annually killed ; and this is the more...
Page 97 - ... diminution. Perhaps it would be nearer the mark to estimate it at nearly double this number; for it is hard to suppose that one in every ten is annually killed ; and this is the more probable when it is borne in mind that the flocks of tame deer in Finland and Nordland amount to twenty-eight thousand head, as above stated. During the winter months the reindeer keep to the high fjelds. Their food at this time consists almost entirely of reindeer moss and other lichens. Occasionally they descend...
Page 251 - ... acclimatized;" the earlier date of its sowing must not, however, be overlooked. In alluding to this matter I may suitably quote the observations of Dr. Schubeler, of Christiauia, in reference to the yield of wheat in Norway. In his synopsis of the vegetable products of Nor. way, he states : " Corn or other seeds brought from a southern to a northern climate require at first a longer time to ripen than the same species which have been cultivated there for some time. But after the lapse of two...