. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. ter year theunion, alwaj^s distasteful to the independent,proud-spirited Norwegians, was people of Norway are universally re-si^ected for their honesty, thrift and love ofdemocratic institutions. Location and Size. Norway occupies thewestern part of the Scandinavian peninsula,lying adjacent to Sweden, Finland (includ-ing Lapland) and the Russian goverament ofArchangel. Its eastern frontier, which isabout 1,500 miles in ext
. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. ter year theunion, alwaj^s distasteful to the independent,proud-spirited Norwegians, was people of Norway are universally re-si^ected for their honesty, thrift and love ofdemocratic institutions. Location and Size. Norway occupies thewestern part of the Scandinavian peninsula,lying adjacent to Sweden, Finland (includ-ing Lapland) and the Russian goverament ofArchangel. Its eastern frontier, which isabout 1,500 miles in extent, follows the Swed-ish boundary for about 950 miles. Norway,extending 300 miles into the Arctic Zone, isa part of the Land of the Midnight Sun,and its extreme northern tip, Cape Nordkyn,is the northernmost point of the Europeanmainland. The Arctic Ocean washes thenorthern coast, the Atlantic and the NorthSea the western. At the south is the Skager-rak, separating Jutland from Norway andconnecting the Cattegat and the North counti-y has an area of about 124,643square miles, a little greater than that ofNew Mexico, and about three times that of. NORWAY 2609 NORWAY Ohio. Sweden is tlie larger by over 48,000square miles. People and Cities. The Norwegians ex-hibit two racial strains, rejDresented by atall, blond Teutonic type, and a shorter,darker one. The fonner predominates. Typical Norwegians are tall, well built andathletic. They nearly all have fair skin, blueeyes and light hair in childhood, but the ten-dency is to grow darker in maturity. Inactivities that call for physical courage andendurance these people have always beenconspicuous, and we find Norway well rep-resented in the annals of polar exj^ people on the globe command greaterrespect than the natives of this far northernland. In 1910 the population of the country was2,392,698. These figures show a slight de-crease from the statistics for 1900, but Nor-way has lost more people through emigra-tion
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