Ridpath's Universal history - an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the (14597720477)

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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning

Year: 1897 (1890s)

Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900

Subjects: World history

Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones

Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System

Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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t degrees there is aperpetual series of considerable inletsand projections of land. Indeed, thewhole Norwegian coast is a chain of THE NORSE.~NOR WEGIANS. 61 successive havens. Not even the coastof Maine is more indented—or could be—than that which lies out against thesea from Norway, north and south of thearctic circle. It is this formation which produces the innumerable inlets along the coast called fjords. They are Nature of the •;-^ 111 fjords; means of generally narrow, bounded subsistence. 1 1 • -i 1 1 1 by high banks or rocks,and through these the water has in many the fjord Norway would be somethingvery different from what vshe is in theethnography and history of the world.From this rough and jagged coast, moreirregular and indented than any tornedge of tin or battered saw, the countrygradually rises into a grazing region.For here, as in some other parts ofScandinavia which we have already de-scribed, the flock is the principal thing,while fowling and fishing and other

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PASSING A SCHOOL UF WHALES.—Drawn by Jules Noe a sktich of Xougaret. places made its way, making the penin-sula insular. Around the fjord, whichis but another name for inlet or bay—albeit the bodies of water so-called aresmaller in extent than those which areusually designated as bays and inletsand sounds—are gathered a great partof the Norwegian population. Thesesomewhat sheltered situations are thehaunts of the people, and are also theseats of the fishing interests. Without subordinate interests come afterwards.Such is the general situation in whichthe ethnographer of to-day finds thenearly two millions of people calledNorwegians. No adequate geographical idea can behad of this country without consideringits general shape. Norway Norway a wateris an abnormally elongated ^^^^70^-piece of territory. The ^na.southern portion constitutes the bottom.

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