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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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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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THE NORSE.—NOR WEGIANS. 63 or bulge, of a bladder-like bottle, witha bent neck reaching from latitude 64°N. to the Varanger Fjord, which entersthe top of the neck as if it would fill thewhole with sea water. The rivers areshort and unimportant, running downquickly to the ocean, like those of West-ern North America. But there is nolack of water. The air is humid andgiven to precipitation. The rainfallvaries very greatly in different parts ofthe country and at different seasons.Along the coast, and particularly in theneighborhood of Sogne Fjord, the rain-fall is as much as seventy-seven inchesper annum. From this it sinks away,through various degrees, until in thesoutheast of Finmark it is no more thantwelve inches during the year. On thewhole, the average precipitation is aboutforty inches. Thunderstorms are com-mon phenomena. In the summertime,on very hot days, when the winds aresouthwesterly, heavy gales arise, andalong the coast the thunder bursts outwith fury and the lightning f

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