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320 THROUGH NORWAY WITII A KNAPSACK.
strongly flavoured with the prussic acid from the
kernels. The charge was two skillings per glass.
Kongsberg is a considerable town, with indications
of commerce that are quite novel, after Norwegian
country life; for, besides its mining industry, there is
much trading in timber, as the logs and rafts in the
river testify. Being Sunday, T could not visit the great
silver mine; and having only just time enough to reach
Christiania by the starting time of the packet, was
unable to afford the two days’ delay that such a visit
would cost; therefore I pushed 011 to the next station,
intending to take a carriole there, but found there was
none : nor was there any food, but abundance of ale.
It was, in fact, remarkably like an English beer-shop,
and the people about were beer-shop customers such as
mining districts usually supply.
At Hougsund, which is rather more than half way
to Drammen, there is a very large station; quite a
public-house, with a skittle-ground and tea-gardens
attached, where a game nearly the same as American
bowls, was being vigorously played by artizans in their
Sunday clothes. There were other games, such as
throwing a suspended ring upon a hook, &c., and there
were many players, but I observed no indications of
gambling ; and though most of the players and the loungers,
who were very numerous, were drinking ale, there Avas
no drunkenness. This is evidently a favourite place
of Sunday resort for the artizans of the vicinity. The
reader must remember that I had left behind the w ild
district of Tellemark, the region of bog and mountain
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