The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . Norway amounts to about 1,350,000, but these are veryunequally distributed ; for while the southern province of Aggerhuus has 513 000iidiabitants on a surface of 35,200 square miles, Nordland has only 59,000 on16,325, and Finmark, the most northern province of the land, but on29,925, or hardly more than one inhabitant to every square mile. But even thisscanty population is immense when compared with that of Eastern Siberia orof the Hudson s Bay territories, and entirely owe
The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . Norway amounts to about 1,350,000, but these are veryunequally distributed ; for while the southern province of Aggerhuus has 513 000iidiabitants on a surface of 35,200 square miles, Nordland has only 59,000 on16,325, and Finmark, the most northern province of the land, but on29,925, or hardly more than one inhabitant to every square mile. But even thisscanty population is immense when compared with that of Eastern Siberia orof the Hudson s Bay territories, and entirely owes its existence to the mildnessof the climate and the open sea, which at all seasons affoids its produce to thefisherman. It is difficult to imagine a more secluded, solitary life than that of the bond-ers, or peasant proprietors, along the northern coasts of Norway. The farms,confined to the small patches of more fruitful ground scattered along the fjords,at the foot or on the sides of the naked mountains, are frequently many milesdistant from their neighbors, and the stormy winter cuts off all communication. MOKWEGIAN FAKM. I FROM DRONTHEIM TO THE NORTH CAPE. 123
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