Journal of a Residence in Norway During the Years 1834, 1835, & 1836: Made with a View to Enquire Into the Moral and Political Economy of that Country, and the Condition of Its InhabitantsLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1837 - 482 páginas |
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... cultivated in the plain and valleys ; but the hills , although of small elevation , are bare knobs of rock shooting up through the earth , without a particle of soil on them . These naked ribs of gneiss and granite run through the ...
... cultivated in the plain and valleys ; but the hills , although of small elevation , are bare knobs of rock shooting up through the earth , without a particle of soil on them . These naked ribs of gneiss and granite run through the ...
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... cultivation , where six or eight sheaves of corn only could be raised , that land is scarce even in proportion to the population ; and that every square mile of what really is land is inhabited as densely as in other cultivated ...
... cultivation , where six or eight sheaves of corn only could be raised , that land is scarce even in proportion to the population ; and that every square mile of what really is land is inhabited as densely as in other cultivated ...
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... cultivate them in gar- dens . I have excellent coffee also , and plenty of milk . The traveller must expect nowhere on the Continent the cleanliness and nicety of the English inn , with every thing bright , shining , and smiling , from ...
... cultivate them in gar- dens . I have excellent coffee also , and plenty of milk . The traveller must expect nowhere on the Continent the cleanliness and nicety of the English inn , with every thing bright , shining , and smiling , from ...
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... cultivation . What is the condition of this Norwegian highland popu- lation compared to that of the tenants on a high- land estate in Scotland ? I cannot yet form a full estimate of the condition of the inhabitants of these glens ; but ...
... cultivation . What is the condition of this Norwegian highland popu- lation compared to that of the tenants on a high- land estate in Scotland ? I cannot yet form a full estimate of the condition of the inhabitants of these glens ; but ...
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... cultivate . Here are the highland glens without the highland lairds . It is , I am aware , a favourite and constant observation of our agricul- tural writers , that these small proprietors make the worst farmers . It may be so ; but a ...
... cultivate . Here are the highland glens without the highland lairds . It is , I am aware , a favourite and constant observation of our agricul- tural writers , that these small proprietors make the worst farmers . It may be so ; but a ...
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