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If travellers for the moft part have not been very favourable in their accounts of Denmark, they have been ftill lefs tender of NORWAY. They have often confounded it with Lapland, and have given defcrip- tions of its inhabitants, and their man- ners, which are hardly applicable to the favages of that country. The notion that is generally entertained of the extreme coldnefs of the climate here is no lefs unjuft. It is true, that in a kingdom which extends thirteen degrees from north to fouth, the temperature of the air cannot every where be the fame: accordingly the moft northern parts of Norway, thofe which face the eaft, and which are not fheltered by the mountains from the fury of the north winds, are undoubtedly ex- pofed to rigorous winters. But almoft all that length of coaft, which is washed by the fea towards the weft, and which forms fo confiderable a part of Norway, com- monly enjoys an air tolerably temperate, even in the middle of winter. Here are none of thofe "defolate regions, where Winter hath eftablifhed his eternal empire, and where he reigns among horrid heaps of ice and fnow," as ignorance hath often led travellers, and a fondness for the marvellous induced poets to ſpeak of Norway. It is feldom that a very fharp froft lafts there a fortnight or three weeks