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is not due to the comparatively greater number of births in the
towns, as this advantage is counterbalanced by the greater
mortality, but to the influx of persons seeking employment, students,
etc., to the towns. Moreover, the towns are frequently enlarged
at the expense of the country, as the suburbs are incorporated in
them — a circumstance, however, which here, where it is a question
of the natural growth-percentage of the town population as
compared with the rural population, cannot be taken into consideration.

In order to illustrate the increase of these two groups since
1825, a table is given below of their relative growth during the
period from one census to another, the distinction between country
and town that was held in 1890 being taken as the basis of the
calculation.

Periods	The Kingdom	Rural Districts	Towns
1825—1835 ......	1.29 %	1.28 %	1.28 %
1835—1845 ............	1.06 »	0.93 »	1.99 »
1845—1855 ............	1.15 »	0.99 »	2.22 »
1855—1865	1.34 »	1.02 »	3.11 »
1865—1875 .....	0.64 »	0.27 »	2.29 »
1875—1890 ......	0.66 »	0.83 »	1.86 »

Thus the influx to the towns seems to have reached its
relative zenith in the period from 1855 to 1865, when the increase
was very considerable, but subsequently fell off a little, partly on
account of emigration to America from the towns, and partly as
a consequence of less moving-in from the rural districts. Since
1890, however, migrating to the towns has taken a fresh start.

The Norwegian towns have grown during the present century
at a greater rate than those of Sweden and Denmark. The
frequent emigration during the early eighties, already referred to,
reversed the conditions for a time; but during the nineties, the
Norwegian town population, owing principally to the exceedingly
rapid growth of the capital, has increased more rapidly than that
of the neighbouring countries. With regard to the growth of the
several larger towns, the following remarks are to be made:

Kristiania, the capital and largest town of the country,
possesses a singularly favourable situation in the south-eastern corner
of the country. In 1801, on its present area, the town numbered

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