A Pictorial Hand-Book of Modern Geography, on a Popular Plan, Compiled from the Best Authorities, English and Foreign, and Completed to the Present Time
A Pictorial Hand-Book of Modern Geography, on a Popular Plan, Compiled from the Best Authorities, English and Foreign, and Completed to the Present Time
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ...and only a few stunted trees in favourable sites. This sterility is mainly caused by the prevalence of northwesterly gales, which prevent the growth of trees to a distance of about twelve miles from the sea, and affect the vegetation nearly thirty miles inland. The produce of the fishery enables the inhabitants to pay ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ...and only a few stunted trees in favourable sites. This sterility is mainly caused by the prevalence of northwesterly gales, which prevent the growth of trees to a distance of about twelve miles from the sea, and affect the vegetation nearly thirty miles inland. The produce of the fishery enables the inhabitants to pay for corn and other Swoden and! POPULATION, EELIGIOK, MANTTFACTOTIES. 265 articles of necessity received from the different countries of Europe. Drontheim, the ancient capital, further north, built almost wholly of wood, is a busy commercial town, with 14,000 inhabitants. It has an old Gothic cathedral, once an object of great veneration to all Scandinavia, but much dilapidated by fire and time, where the sovereigns are still crowned as kings of Norway. Tromsoe, the chief town of Finmark, on an island within the Arctic circle, is only a village, but publishes a newspaper, probably the most northerly in the world. Hammerfest, still smaller, on another island, in lat. 70 40', is the most northerly town in Europe, with the dwarf birch growing in sheltered spots to about the height of a man. It is a central trading station in furs and fish. 18. The Population of the whole peninsula is estimated at 4,750,000, of which 3,430,000 belong to Sweden, and 1,320,000 to Norway. These are the least populous countries in Europe. The great mass of the people live in villages, or scattered homesteads, only a small proportion being town dwellers. The Swedes and Norwegians are of the same lineage as the Danes; and speak different dialects of the same language, the Scandinavian Gothic. The Laplanders in the north are a totally distinct race, belonging to the Mongolian division of mankind. They are of small stature, live chiefly in tents, and are clothed with the s...
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