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Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
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nsed, and the broad devel-oping West, wherepioneers were al-ready pushing theway for armies ofsettlers. Balti- more at that timeseemed the El Do-rado of the west-ern continent.Sagacious North-erners entered thefield as workersand helpers, doingtheir share instimulating its ad-vance to a pointof prosperous ex-istence whereby itis classed in thegroup of interest-ing Americancities. Thus did apast generation ofsturdy men from a northern clime con-tribute to an enterprising town of theSouth a powerful influence in shapingits destiny, whereby it became a leadingcommercial city, whose conservativebusiness methods and sound financialtheories are avouched by the fact thatit has not had a bank failure for up-wards of sixty years. New England-ers strengthened the sinews and in-creased the commercial substance ofthe city of their adoption, and, withan almost universal acquirement ofwealth, created a unique social com-munity, refined and cultured, distinct-ly recognized as New England Balti-more.
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A CHAPTER ON NORWAY. T HE peninsula of Scandinavia isa unique geographical expres-sion on* the face of the globe.About a third, roughly speaking, or,to be accurate, 112,711 square milesof it—equal to twice the area of Eng-land—is separated from Sweden by anoble range of mountains, 1,600 feethigh by 1,000 miles long, and is calledNorway. Three hundred miles of itsnorthern portion lie well within theArctic Circle, marking the highestpoint of inhabited Europe, while it ex-tends southward into the North Sea,its western coast washed by the Arcticand Atlantic oceans. Statistics fur-nish the information that Norway isfrom 70 to 280 miles broad by 1,100long; that it has a population of2,000,000; that its greatest elevationis 8,161 feet, more than 5,000 of thatbeing above the perpetual ice line;that the sea extends enormously longarms into the land, and that thesearms are supplemented by appendageswhich might be called fingers,and make a map of the country looklike groups of cuttlefish. No

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