Sport in Norway, and where to Find it: Together with a Short Account of the Vegetable Productions of the Country. To which is Added, a List of the Alpine Flora of the Dovre Fjeld and of the Norwegian Ferns, &cChapman and Hall, 1864 - 334 oldal |
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abounds ALPINA attains average number bear-hunters Bears fruit Bergen birch-limit birds Bruin Buskeruds Christiania common corn cultivated districts Dombaas Dovre Dovre Fjeld Draba alpina Drivdal Drivdalen Drivstuen East Finmark especially extremely Finmark fir-limit fishing Fjord Flowers Fogstuen forest Foss Gaard Gederyggen Grows wild Gudbrandsdal Hallingdal Harbakken Hardanger height higher altitude hunter hunting inches Jerkin Jotun killed Knudshoë Kongsvold lake larger willows larvæ limit of birch limit of fir miles moss mountain Namsen nearly neighbourhood Nordland north as lat Norway Norwegian occasionally places in Drivdal plant Professor Blytt quantity rare reindeer remarkable Rendalen ripen road Romsdal Rustgaard ryper Sæters Sætersdal peasant salmon scarcely shady places shooting shot side small river snow Sogne Fjord sport square miles station steamer Stift stream summer Tofte tree trout-fishing Vaarstien valley Vand Varanger Fjord variety VULGARIS western coast whole Fjeld winter
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249. oldal - It is owing to this that the mean temperature at the N. Cape and at Christiania, during the winter months, though these places are separated from each other by 12° of latitude, is the same. But on penetrating for a few miles into the interior, out of the influence of the sea-air, the cold in winter is intense to a degree, while the heat in summer is equally oppressive. Thus at Valle, in Saetersdal, lat.
28. oldal - CO pounds weight, after a little more than an hour's battle. It was caught on a No. 6 or 7 hook ; wings, two golden tippets dyed crimson, sprigged with mallard, teal, golden pheasant, and Argus pheasant ; horns, blue macaw ; head, black ; body, claret hog's wool ; tag, red mohair ; ribbed gold twist.
129. oldal - Two elks in one day is not such a despicable bag to one gun. But the ordeal through which his nerves had recently passed had completely upset him, so that he could not find in his heart to shoot it. Then and there he made a solemn vow that as long as he lived he would never raise gun any more against an elk, for it seemed to him as if he had for all the world been guilty of murder. The memory of the scene haunted him, I suppose, like the killing of the albatross did the
252. oldal - This is the more remarkable when it is borne in mind that the members of the Protestant churches number only one out of each thousand of the population.
89. oldal - ... spelling the word, therefore, reader, free your minds from any alarm on that score. The wild reindeer may be found on the high fjelds of Norway, as far south as latitude 60 deg., wherever the altitude is above the limit of the willow and the birch, viz., about three thousand four hundred feet. They are more numerous in the west and south-west of the mountain plateaux than in the north-east, probably owing to the absence of Lapps in those parts, who hunt them whenever and wherever they can. Neither...
97. oldal - ... reliable data concerning what the former actually achieved, but the Rev. MR Barnard in his book, " Sport in Norway ", 1864, refers to this subject on page 97, and the details which were given to him, and which he quotes, are the largest bags I can find recorded. From this book I take the following: " B. tells me of a first-rate Vaage hunter who once killed 13 in a year, and he says that the great man of all, ' Old Joe', who is I suppose, par excellence, the ' mighty hunter' of Norway, who has...
113. oldal - Scandinavia, in company with the reindeer, at a time when the province of Scania was connected with the continent of Germany : Judging from the numerous fossil remains that have been found in the peat-bogs and morasses of Scania, it may be inferred that elk-deer were formerly very numerous here, and also of a larger size than the animals now existing. And even in the mediaeval ages they must have been tolerably plentiful in these parts, for among the remains of slaughtered animals which a few years...
214. oldal - It is said that ages ago, in the remote past, some Scotch families found their way into Saetersdal, and especially into Bykle, and settled there ; and that in time they became so intermixed with the Saetersdal peasants that all indications of their foreign extraction became obliterated, except from this dim tradition and their outlandish features.
97. oldal - Their food at this time consists almost entirely of reindeer moss and other lichens. Occasionally they descend into the regions of the birch and willow, to eat the bark from the trees ; but in spring they commence to migrate downwards from their lofty altitudes to visit the grassy dales in the vicinity of the saeters, while further on in the summer they may often be seen grazing in the valleys between the high fjelds. Occasionally they may be seen in early summer grazing quietly amongst the cattle....
57. oldal - ... or jagir. As this fortress, in the district of Sorath, came into the power of the imperial government, the author will here insert what is necessary to be known regarding this country, and the appellation of Junagarh. This territory is bounded on the south and west by the sea ; on the east by the Zillah of Jhalawar ; and on the north by the boundaries of the provinces of Thattah, where the black soil of the hills and stony grounds become so swampy after a little rain that one can with difficulty...