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hundred, merchants fâmihéspafoove half ’of which are Germans or
fDujtchjf hüt have>T>éên naturalized
Germanrcolony in one o f oUr ' towns Up irii ^^luéiüntâiÉSj called
Kongfberg, where they I have divine fertdçe performed in their
awn language, as it is at the company Vhnuféjat fergèrti- TPherOis
ft® a more i ancient' colony o f this • nation, which came - here iti thè
reigh-dTGkriftian III. tbfe fa telo f which I have Aelated above in
nay:de®|x^fiofa o f the filver-mines in Norway, fee Bart I. p. i8 r ;
Tames* J. R a rnns. gives: nS a lhor.t recount of .a T^taftànUciôloïiy that
fed fformthEH? own countryeand-fèttlédhetej ihTÉè Mgp' of kinj^
Hagen Hagenfen, which he ^ relates in the ' following,'Words, in
page'231: “ In Senniens Lehn, there is a place called.Malanger-
fiord,' Which in the reign of King; Hagen Hagenfen^ was giyétât to
a certain people to fettle in, who' had fed-froip Tartaty to' BT
armelând, and from thence came to Norway: King Hagen caüfed
them all to be baptizèd, and gave fee m leavé ; tQ^f&deôn Ma-
langerfeid,Tn&c.
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I fhall now: proeeedvto the chief pQint: l Had:in'.inew in;this
.chapter, ; namely, to give ànlexhét deferiptiori. of the Hoiweg|a®$i‘
their genius, manner and qualities, both of body and mind:^ Thô;
the outward alpeét is feldbm regarded ; as ,-fep ;j^|jeipai/ÔndSw-
ment. in any civilized ;nadon, Jÿf6 4s dtrfelfTWh^Swthe eye, I -ihali
begin with obferving, that the Nbrvegians aid in general P:f ù’good
appearance, tab, well who
pretend ;that there is a difference in the: ; inhabitàntsi of Norway
according : to their fituatioji ; and obfcrve =: that the peafants who
live among the mountains, are genèraüy taller than the.aeftj 'and
have a certain feverity in their countenance which commands reis
declining, and grows every dayMsf Ithd ras. , In'radl',''tnéÿ fkWDùta'W^?pOT»
tion left, fince, the warehoufe-trade, See. Has begn bydegrçes.boughtup/byî -th,e.natives,
to whom it belongs ;by .natural, right. This pbmpany poflefiès the bât palt'ipf
tHe'rity of Bergen. Their ground extends all alcmgthe'weft-fidcof the haven',’ ! ahd
is in length ;ÿ|© paces, 'and,' 1 20 -in breadth, corltainingthirty large iwufeffc^ the
Fronts o f which look towards Garpe-Bridge, or the German-Bridge,* and’ form a
. ftreet. In the fame row are the compting-houfes, oppofite to thefe is the place where
the filh-dealers are always, at work. Thw are continually bufied Jn.pacfatÆi
ünïoadîh^, &c. efb&i^lly'in fA i f 'and' Ahguflt, when' tké ’NoM M u ^euels
- feme in ;t[y hundreds at à time,: hefides a great .'many foreign Ships. " Each, compt-
ing-kôùfé "Has1 lëparàte apartments, • ’and 'aré propériy'factarws, having their feparate
céconomy'’ conducted by h'rhaSer who has his 'clerks, and fervants, that are moftlÿ
Germans,' but in the fervice of,thé Norwegians.' 'NoTrcuhen. are fufifered to be in
thé compting-houfes, according to ancient cuitomj bytvhieK they artrallregulated
to This/day;
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