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4 Scotsman ’ after I hacl been lecturing1 on Norway
in Edinburgh. The writer sought to refute my
statements respecting the general sobriety and
orderly conduct of the Norwegians by describing
what he had seen in the vicinity of the town of
––- (why he feared to name the town I cannot
tell). The context showed clearly that 44 –––-”
stood for Drammen. There are many others who,
being engaged in the timber trade, are well
acquainted with this towm, but with no other part of
Norway. Nothing could be more delusive than to
take Drammen as a sample of Norway. Its
population consists of all nationalities, and quite a
special and exceptional set of Norwegians engaged in
the timber trade and the neighbouring mining
districts. A Frenchman who should describe the
44 bargees” and coal-whippers of Millbank, and
the miners and jDuddlers of Tipton and Dudley
Port, as specimens of average Englishmen, would
represent us about as fairly as the timber-trade
correspondent of the 4 Scotsman ’ who selected
Drammen to represent Norway.
We reach Christiania at a late hour, and find
the Victoria Hotel filled to overflowing, in spite
of its considerable extensions and its annexation
of the Hôtel du Nord since my last visit.
August 3Lsi.—We 44 do” Oscar’s Hall and the
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