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fifty years eftates have nfea. hear-one third in value.3 . In thé extenfive
| ifland. of Iceland,', there is- not much room far agriculture ; which has
ho wever; greatly ^declined fince: the -period of the republic, when trea-
tifes were written on this, interefting fubjeéï. .
■ Rivers. - In the kingdom .of Denmark proper th e . rivulets, are numerous; but,
fcarcely a river of any note except the Eydar, the ancient boundary
between Denmark and Germany. Towards- the north ó f Jutland, an
Lymfiord. extenfive treek of the fea, called. Lymfiord, penetrates from .the - Cat-
fegat to within two or three miles qf the German fea,- navigable,- full
of fifli, and containing many iflands.* This remarkable inlet, which is
d om e n .
as it were; a Mediterranean fea in hainiature, might well be éxpedted; to
enrich the neighbouring country, but fcems to he neglected, as travellers
and geographers axe filent. There are feveral. other creeks which are
by the Danes ftyled Fiords, of .Firths, hut fcarcely another river worth
mentioning; for the Gilden, which becomes navigable at Randoms; is
of a very confined coiirfe.
In Norway, as in Sweden, the largeft rivers are called Elven or El-
ben. Thofe that rife in the Alpine chain, and run towards the weft,
have in confequence but a fliort courfey and thq. chief ports, as in. the
weft of Scotland, are fupplied by xreeks or inlets of th’e fea; ,.the great;
depth of the water and height o f the fhore rendering this coaft not a
little unfafe to navigators. The chief river o f Norway is the Glom or
Glomen, which is not navigable, but full o f cataradts and Ihoals ; yet
about 5q,qqp trees are annually floated upon it to Ffederickftadt.;.
Before it receives the Worm' from the lake Miofs, it is as-broad as.the
Thames at Putney ; 5 and its rugged eo«rfe muft render it a tremendous
torrent. The Glomen, alfo called the Stor -Elv, or great riVer,
fprings-from the. lake p f Orefund on the .north.of the Foernund;, and
runs nearly fouth about 500 Britifh miles.*
. 3 Cox e, v , 18. 4 Bufching, i . 228. .* Cox e, \\ 6 2 .
• In the map b y Homann, correAed b y Hubner, and prefixed to Poiitoppidan’ s natural
hiflory o f N orway, the foürce is very different; and that author joins in thé error p.,91'. When
.- i t is cohfidered that the book and the map were published in 1751, when Linnaeus in the- adjacent'
jkingdom was diffufing the light o f natural fcience, the"errors o f both are truly furprifing. Per-
Jiaps the firft tolerable maps o f Norway, known in England, were that given b y M r. Coxe, and that
contained in Arrowfmith’ s map o f Europe. B u t even recent maps have not always been improved
b j -thefe examples.
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Next may be'nltned the'Dram'me, which flPWs iritp'the’weft fide m
1 *he bay of; Ghriftiana‘, having receive^ tShe Bema1, a‘nd other confiddrable
■ftreams. ^Lefs remarkable rism^ih the. fouth- P f Norway. are ■the LjJu-
vesn, the .Torriffcls'Whfch-.runs %f GhtiftiWiS&nd, -and otheMflowing
frorn- numerpiis lakes/. In '“finmark- the-mtA'^cck^fei^bte^rive^'is the
Tana, which is fi^o^ed'by both^ifa^'ih-the-mxoantai^.tothq.
north oftSwediifevLaptand, and low in g into. the :Araic.qceafl. '
1 -The lakes in the-Danifti ^dominion stare numerous',Jfthe n^||t^e^fehftve
beingi in* the fouth of Norway. The 1 ake ‘ off Mrqfs .'Is' abauftsfe/Britiftn
miles in length, bub thq breadth'« gteneralhlitdte' chfiiderabte; exb’ept
'Awards the ,centre, where »‘i s 18 milesT /an/
jfiand-about tea miles in'-ciEGiitoferencej fertile '‘i#hdfnf, paflfare, an'd'-
w©od. Next is theflake of, Rands or RandS-Sipn, which is near’fifty
ntHe^ in-length,hut"net, mo'rerthan!it^dati breadth.’ ■ The lake 'of Tyri
is a beautiful piece of water,'' about' fifteeh-’mllla in length^iid breadth;
^werfihed-with- many bays and.creeks j ,th e / environs are'*delightful,
epnfifting efecpra fields, fertile meaddiys.i'ihd 'hanging fofefts, backed-
by, lofty ^mountains-towering above* edbhff'dther.’1'" -.Other' lal-es uit’the
feuth, of Norway are t-hofe of Ojeren, -Or, Kroreri, ^ e h | l ^ Tind}
Huide,. Niffer, 'Riel, and Syredah • Further^ the' northiis the large
laJ^e of Famund-,;,about Brkiih .miles' i<n iSngfrh, b y t^ b g at .«*■
greateft breadth: this lake is celebrated ;by-Bergman „as-- btjifig fift-
rounded by mountains-of great'height. Y.et furth^, ima northern
dire^ion, are found the-lake o f Sselbo, through wh'ich|he^d^afies--
to^Drontheim ; and the .lakes of Beitftadt and Snaifen.;jiIn Norland is
that o f R y s a n d eaffem Fihmark prefents that of Pafvig.,
In the'kingdom of Denmark, proper there are ho heights, which .catrf,
afp’ire to the'name of mountains; but NoiVay ’i^ almbl^wh’qlly’an
Alpine country. - The grand chain,' which divides''that kingdom/from
Sweden, is knowfi by diftindt appellations as it. paffes through different
provinces.' The mountains of Joglefeld mayxhe 'regarded as its foutthern
extremity, which dog&.not here extend toltl^fpbint df-^oisvay called'
Cape Lindes, ihe Naze of feamen/hitt bfatlcheSfdff tp^& ^ ih e eaft.
Proceeding northwards Joglefeld k fucceeded by Buglefeld, and Hekle-'
6 Cox?, v. 55. _ xb,
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Rands.
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Fffimund.
Mountains.-
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