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| Keywords: Waller Ferry (JW Edy plate 29).jpg Artwork Creator John William Edy en Waller Ferry No XXIX WALLER The roads in this part of the country are nearly impassable; water-carriage is therefore the most common mode of conveyance The passage runs between islands and tremendous rocks which nearly meet in some of the passes In two hours the journey from Krageröe to Waller may be accomplished The ferry-house of Waller is conveniently situated in a country which bore every appearance of supenor cultivation The fields were covered with various kinds of corn and a considerable quantity of flax Much attention is paid in Norway to the culture of commercial plants Of flax and hemp the country however still requires importations In the manufacture of linens the Norwegian peasantry are very industrious and skilful and in some parts annually dispose of considerable quantities Hops are cultivated nearly in all parts of Norway in the south as well as in the north The districts of Guldbrandsdale Hedemark and Hardanger in particular contain a great number of hop gardens from which a considerable part of the country is supplied Von Aphelen in his translation of Bomare's Natural History states that on the shores of Folden a long firth about 120 miles to the northward of Drontheim most farms were provided with hop-gardens Tobacco has been much cultivated especially in latter times in the vicinity of Frederickshald and in other places Cummin caraway in Norwegian karve grows wild every where in great abundance In some meadow scarcely anything but caraway is to be seen In the districts of Ringerige and Hedemark as well as in other places a peasant is at times able to sell from 10 to 20 barrels annually Great quantities of caraway are exported particularly from Christiania Manna grass festuca fluitans Linn grows wild in great abundance but the use of it is unknown Herbs for feeding cattle according to the practice of rural economists in latter times are not found in Norway A small quantity of clover produced in the vicinity of Christiania is scarcely worth mentioning But wild plants suited to the feeding of cattle and other branches of economy are on the other hand in great abundance ; for instance Nettles urtica dioica used by poor people instead of cabbage Some make very good and strong linen of nettles Orobus tuberosus is chewed by some like tobacco Its root which is knotty is gathered and strung on pieces of thread It is sold by the ell Pteris aquilina an exellent herb for feeding cattle; when burnt to ashes it produces soap Many other plants of the kind might be mentioned Collapse bottom http //urn nb no/URN NBN no-nb_digibok_2011072910001 Boydell's picturesque scenery of Norway London 1820 Plate no 29 p 185 in scanned copy no-nb_digibok_2011072910001 PD-Art-100 John William Edy Boydell's picturesque scenery of Norway Transport in Aust-Agder Geography of Aust-Agder Valle Transport in Telemark Geography of Telemark Bamble Telemark in art | ||||
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