G E N E R A L O B S E R V A T I O N S .
and addrefs of Guftavus Vafa; but Norway has continued inviolably
united to the crown of Denmark.
Norway is formed by nature into two great divifions, Northern,
and Southern or Proper Norway, feparated from each other by
the fmall Swediih province of Herndahl.
Northern Norway is a long and narrow flip of land, extending
as far as North Cape, beyond the feventy-firil degree of north
latitude, the moil northern point of Europe, and bounded to the
weft and fouth by the northern ocean, and by Swediih and Ruffian
Lapland. It is divided into Nordland and Finnmark, and
comprehended in the government o f Drontheim.
Southern, or Norway Proper, of which a map is prefixed
to this chapter, is bounded to the north and eaft by Sweden, and
to the weft and fouth by the northern ocean. It is divided
into four governments, Aggerhuus or Chriftiania, Chriftian-
iand, Berghen, and Drontheim.
Although Norway comprehends a large tradl of territory, yet
from its rocky foil and northern pofition its population is by no
means adequate to its extent. Perhaps the following tables,
giving the number of births and deaths during feven years, may
afiift us in forming a probable ftatement of the population of
Norway.
Births. Deaths.
^ 7 7 7 — 2 .3G 3 I . . *-
CO
— 2 3 * 4 8 7 - I 5 ,2 2 - 2
* 77-9 — 2 3 , 8 6 2 - ” 2 0 , 7 6 8
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