NORWAY AND HER LAPLANDS IN 1841. To those adventurous travellers who are not disheartened at the prospect of toilsome paths, and a climate a few degrees colder than their own, Norway presents many attractions; not the least remarkable of which are the primitive virtues which distinguish the inhabitants generally, but particularly those of the rural districts; and the peculiarly wild but not unpleasing features of the country. Mr. Milford appears to have made a tour in this direction, as much for health as from curiosity; and having furnished himself with the requisites for combining amusement with observation, he passed his time with no less satisfaction than profit. In the volume he has produced as the result of his travels, he mingles in a very agreeable manner the tourist with the sportsman, enlivening his sketches of the picturesque people among whom he dwelt, with notices of the sporting capabilities of the forests and lakes among which he fished and shot. His account of the Norwegians is both lively and interesting, and the glimpses he affords us of the Lapps only make the reader regret that he sees so little of them. We offer one of his sporting memoranda as a fair specimen of the author's style. On Friday and Saturday the 13th and 14th we had glorious sport in fishing in the far-famed Namsen, killing upwards of 100 lbs. of salmon. We greatly enjoyed, for the first time, the excitement this delightful sport affords. One of the fish Ikilled, after playing with him for some minutes, weighed 23lb. ; another, after I had hooked him, leaped twice out of the water in the middle of the stream, ran down a rapid, and then returning, went under our boat, when I thought I had lost him, but he again took to the open river, and showed much play before he was brought to the gaff, when, not a little fatigued with the exertion, which is considerable, I was glad to rest. In the midst of this magnificent sport, sometimes an audacious poacher interferes, who mars your enjoyment. The awful sound of "cobbe" still rings in my Devonian ears. I had at first associated the well-known name with those mud-built but peaceful abodes in which the happy peasantry of my native and beautiful county pass their tranquil lives from one generation to another. Judge, then, of my horror, gentle reader, at beholding the grizzly head of a villanous seal emerging above the waters, and like myself, looking out for the finny tribe. He races up, in an incredibly short space of time, from the mouth of the Namsen to the Fiskum Foss, beyond which neither he nor the salmon can go; and when he is once in the river all your sport is at an end, and you may as well lay down your rod in despair, and go home to your dinner and siesta-"Othello's occupation's o'er!"-for although there may be hundreds of salmon in the river, not one will rise at a fly, be it never so tempting; they have an instinctive feeling of the presence of their deadliest enemy, which entirely takes away their appetites; young and old, large and small, all alike dread the seal; they plunge into holes and corners, and hide themselves like a squandered cowering covey, "Which cuddles closer to the brake, Afraid to move, afraid to fly," when a hawk hovers over them. A glimpse of a seal clears the river; the salmon are stupified with fear, or occupied too much with self-preservation, to allow even Izaac Walton to catch them. I arrived at this conviction by frequent disappointments, and gave up all hope of sport at the appearance of this unwelcome and uninvited visitor. These aquatic monsters are to the salmon what the otter is to the trout; and as they roll by his boat the angler should always have his double-barrel and swan-shot at hand, as the only effectual method of warning them off. He and the cobbes are too much of the same trade ever to agree. THIRD INDEX TO THE PART OF 1842. AINSWORTH, W. Harrison, Esq., notice of America, N., a modern tour in the United Barnabys in America, the, by Mrs. Trol- Every Body has Seen, by, 209, 289.- Boz in America, by Thomas Hood, Esq., 396 Burke's Table - talk at Mrs. Crewe's, C. C., Epigram, by, 230 China, News from, by the Editor-No. China, Narrative of the Expedition to, China, more news from, by Thomas Cino's Lament for the death of Ricciarda Dec.-VOL. LXVI. NO. CCLXIV. Clarence, Duke of, drinks his father's Confession, A., by the Medical Stule Country, the love of the, 87 D'Arblay, Diary and Correspondence of Death, 16 Dickens, Charles, Esq., American Notes Epigrams, 53, 150, 280, 354, 361 Fashionable Vocabulary, Contributions to Geddes, Dr., Macaronic Poetry of, 228 German Spas, 439 Good Intentions, by μ, 346 Gower and the Gowerians, a Glance at, Haywood, comedian and dramatist, 134 277 Hood. Thomas, Esq., The Elm Tree: 2 R (stanzas), 160-News from China, by, | -A Morning Thought, by, 361-Boz Horse and Foot, by T. Hood, Esq., 157 Huddleston, Mr., and Sawston Hall, 133 Incumbents, the Five, by the Author of Latin need not be bad Loyalty, 151 Leah Meriel, by the Medical Student, Literature of the Month (for SEPTEMBER): (for OCTOBER): | (for NovEMBER): | - Self-devotion, ., On the Physiology of Lying, by, 54- Macao, manners and trades of, described, Macaronic Poets of England and Scot- Marryat, Capt., R.N., C.B., Percival Mass, an hour at (stanzas), by a Medical Medical Student, Reminiscences of a. 222 Million, singing for the, 150 421 Morning Thought, a, by T. H., 361 England, reviewed, 411 edited by the author of the "Subal-Nabob at Home, the; or the Return to 421 - (for DECEMBER): 566 Logon, Marc, "Love," by, 86 Newa, breaking up of the ice on the Newfoundland in 1842, by Sir R. Bonny- New York, city of, 400 Noble, Mrs., Lieutenant Douglas, and Ornither, the First of September; or, a Parchment and Isinglas, 153 Persons whom Every Body has Seen, by about it, 289-IV., Persons who are Philomelophagy, by Peregrine, 232 - Poppy, the (stanzas), by Horace Smith, Puffing, on, 151 Settlements and Settlers, on, 257 Strickland, Miss, Vol. V. of the Queens Student of Louvain, the, by Elizabeth Queen's of England, the, vol. v., by Sun's Eclipse, the, verses by Horace Miss Strickland, reviewed, 131 Raleigh, Sir Walter, on death, 16 Rushly, the Rector of, 95 Russia and the Russians in 1842, by M. Savile, Hon. Charles Stuart, the Snow- Savile, Hon. Charles Stuart, contribution School Friendships: an anecdote, by μ., 456 Schwellenberg, Mrs., anecdote, 528 Smith, Esq., 184 Sutherland, Gulielmi, Diploma, 223 Trimmers, 152 Trollope, Mrs., the Barnaby's in Ame- Villa, a mysterious, 446, 448 Washington, city of, and the American Youatt, Elizabeth, the Student of Lou- END OF THE THIRD PART OF 1842. C. WHITING, BEAUFORT HOUSE. |