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    drink * « U \ m aktuuiaMce , and of fchafo own pwmding i goal hmr—y ami a beuurful « f people who have more food ihm wprku Food , funwfrMfp * , and ctotk ^ ag , being all hoinarina ^ le , fcba difference in those juMp between the family and the servant is very smalli but there i § a par&Ktt distinction kept up * The servants invariably e&jfc , simp , and ait apart . from the ftunUy , and have generally a digtinct building adjoining to the

    family house . * ~ p . 403 . The agricultural labourers are called houseipen ; they always Ijavf 1 &imJ , wlush they generally hold in life-rent ^ an $ p ^ y the rt ^ at jn , work . Scarcely any pf them ^ r § wit ^ PUt two qpw » , PC an equivalent pmnber Qf sheep and gpals * Thay all fcayQ th ^ w § ll ? nwlt b ^ us ^^ so gsnefaj ia Norway } ftlw&y s v ? e ] l air ^ d , ^ IJ

    lighted , and clean . These houses are of wood , but murt not be supposed to bear any resemblance fa the thin ^ boavded cottages in England ; and are still further removed from the wretched hovels of Scotland and Ireland . Glass windows , and many pf them , and planked floors , are universal . Perhaps the bpst idea of their circumstances will be g iven by quoting part of an 34 vertisement of " land to be sold , " extracted from the

    morgettbteci newep&per' * Houses for housemen , with enclosed land to each , that extend ? ta the keeping of two cows and six sheep all the year , aad to the sowing of one and a half ton of corn ( the ton is b&lf an imperial quarter ) aa 4 six tons of potatoes . "—p . 149 ,

    Mr Laing adds , that he conceives this to be the average condition of the agricultural labourers in Norway , and after reading it , we agre § with him that it is amusing to recollect i ( the bepevolent specuUtions" pf our " Sir ^ obn « apd Sir Thomases , fqy bettering the conditioa of labourers in busb ^ nd ^ Vf by giving them , * t a re ^ sonablQ rent , a quarter pf an acre of l&nd to keep a cow on , or by allowing them to cultivate th ^ slips of Hiid Qll

    the rpad-side outside of their hedges . " There 19 not to be found in Norway ths ^ t wid ^ s diffe rence betweeji pn ^ ql ^ ss pf society and another , which w ^ are , usq 4 to witness among ouna ^ ves . Not on \ y \ i \ the ^ enjovment of the nepe ^^ rifis and CQin fort * of Uf « . ^| iph a ^ hou&qs , food , fufr

    nitwre , &q ., bi | t in m ^ OPers , habits , ja i > 4 oliaract ^ r , all s ^ re nwcfy mar « 0 ^ W > equality . Th « niode of liviag among th # largerpror protors dpes not appear to differ in ^ wy material po \ n % fro ^ that of the bonder , 1 hero is of course greater refinement , niojr $ abundance , and there are more UbPlirers to dp the work , but th « 8 is all , A true iinpFesmpn pf the nepe ^ sary mediocri ty of a ) f

    fo rtune in th « aouptry ^ whether q ( hnded proprietor * Qf thP « Q engaged ia professions or buaiaeps , wiU be given by the foljp ^ ing extract — w Norway the land , as already observed , is parcelled out into small estates , affording a e © mft * t » M ^ futaistenoe , and , In » moim m £ * imfm *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1836, page 659, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2663/page/7/