Identifier: norwaycontaining00fore (find matches)
Title: Norway in 1848 and 1849: containing rambles among the fjelds and fjords of the central and western districts; and including remarks on its political, military, ecclesiastical, and social organization
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Forester, Thomas
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Publisher: London : Printed for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans

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er, and plunged in the boiling foambelow. At the foot of each fall, a perfect barrier ofpines was formed, to which many were added whilewe stood witnessing the struggle. Some, eddying inthe whirlpools, seemed destined never to get free; onealmost wondered how any escaped: numbers werebroken up, and some never recovered. The wholeshore below the falls was strewed with the giantbulk disjectaque membra of these spoils of the forest,thus arrested in their progress to the sea. Felled and sledged to the nearest stream during th6winter, no sooner is its frozen channel set free by thereturning spring, and swelled by the influx from thedissolving snow, than the timber, thus left to its fate,begins its long journey. Borne down by the foamingtorrents which lash the base of its native hills, far inthe interior; hurried over rapids; taking its onwardcourse along the shores of winding lakes, or slowlydropping down in the quiet current of broad rivers;the accumulated mass is brouglit up at last by a
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<!»?.,^«! TIMBER RAFTS 37 strong boom placed across the stream, where it dis-charofes itself into navi:able waters. It is thensorted, appropriated by the merchants to whom it isconsigned, and shipped for foreign ports. One wouldwonder how it ever reached the place of its des-tination, or how, of the numerous owners, each couldreco2:nise his own. But I was oriven to understand O CD that the logs are branded with the owners mark be-fore they are committed to the stream; and I observedthat, during their passage down the lakes, they arecollected into immense rafts, curiously framed andpinned together; but so unwieldy and unmanageableare the masses, that but little can be done in the Avayof navigation, beyond fending them off the shores androcks, and keeping them in the current. Some of thetimber is said to be two years in finding its wayto the coast. We had again fallen in with a gang of labourers,engaged in the construction of the new road, in ourpassage through the last forest, whe

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