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366 COKE’S TRAVELS IN NORWAY.
turefque views. The planks are fhipped clofe fo the houfe. -From thence Mr, Peter
Anker drove in a low phaeton, drawn by two active Norwegian ponies, to Bockftadt,
a country-houfe which he has juft built on the banks of a fmall but beautiful lake, four
miles from Vickery, in the mid{t of an endlefs forelt, and furrounded by mountains.
He fhewed us his grounds, which are laid out pleafantly, and carried us into his kitchen-
garden, which produces all kinds of vegetables, excellent cherries, pears, apples, apri-
cots, currants, goofeberries, and in a favourable feafon tolerable peaches. He pointed
out a {mall plantation of the principal trees which are indigenous in. Norway, I remark-
ed the plane, afpin, afh, mountain afh, oak, elm, beech, birch alder, willows, and va-
rious {pecies of pines and firs, which form the riches of thefe parts.
Mr Peter Anker has lately introduced various fpecies of Englifh huftandry ; parti-
cularly he has fown crops of clover, which fucceed well, and has lately cultivated tur
nips.
Cuar.II.—Silver Mines of Kong fboerg. — Cobalt Works of Foffum. — Journey into the
interior Parts of Norway.
SEPTEMBER ro. We quitted Chriftiana.with much regret, after having expreffed
our acknowledgment to Mr. Bernard Anker for his extreme politenefs and hofpitality. He
alfo increafed our obligations by fketching out a tour through the inland parts of Nor-
way, and by giving us a circular letter, which we found a paflport of introduCtion, and
a means of procuring accommodations and information.
A little beyond Giellebeck, the fecond poft-houfe from Chriftiana, we paffed, near
the high road, a quarry of whitifh grey marble, which was opened to fupply the ftones
for the new church at Copenhagen, but is no longer worked. In the middle of the -
quarry ftands.a marble column, erected in honour ‘of the late King Frederic the Fifth,
who vifited this fpot. The houfes, and even cottages, in the neighbouring villages, are
ornamented with ftaircafes of this beautiful marble.
From this quarry we afcended through forefts of pines and firs to the fummit called
Paradifberg, or the Mountain of Paradife, fo denominated from the fine profpect, but
which, in my opinion, was inferior to that we enjoyed from the eminence overhanging
Chriftiana. The general features of this profpect are views of diftant mountains rifing
above mountains; rich and extenfive forefts, and below a fertile valley watered by the
Dramme, with the three towns of Braeenetz, Stromfoe, and Tanger, ftanding at {mall
diftances from each other at the bottom of fome rugged rocks, and on the margin of
a ba
Thefe three towns are known by the general name of Dramme, becaufe they are fitu-
atod on that river, Each has its own church and feparate jurifdifion. The inhabitants
aye induftrious, and carry on a confiderable trade. ‘he principal exports are timber
and planks; the imports,’ chiefly corn, and lead from England for fmelting the filver
ore at Kongfberg.
We changed horfes at Bregnetz, which lies on the fide of the river oppofite to
Stromfoe and Tanger, and continued our route, coafling the Dramme, through a de-
lightful valley, extremely rich in corn and pafture, fo thickly peopled, that every fifty
yards we obferved a cottage, and for feveral miles together feemed,to pafs through a
continued village, The floping declivities which bound this vale are fo thickly covered
with trees, that at fome diftance they appeared as if clad with herbage. The inhabi-
tants of this pleafant diftri& chiefly derive their fuftenance from the tranfport.of corn
and merchandize to Kongfberg, and in carrying back. the filver coined-at the mint of
at ‘ that
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