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LEFT NOBTON SOUND 489 NOEWAY Theories"; and editor of "Letters of James Russell Lowell"; "Letters of Thomas Carlyle"; etc. He died Oct. 21, 1908. NOBTON SOUND, an arm of the Be- ring Sea on the west coast of Alaska, south of Cape Prince of Wales. At its entrance it is 175 miles wide, and ex- tends about 135 miles into Alaska. The Yukon river empties into it. It was dis- covered in 1778 by Captain Cook. NOBWALK, a town in Fairfield co., Conn.- on the Norwalk river, and on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford railroad; 60 miles S. W. of Hartford. Here are Norfolk and South Norwalk Public Libraries, high schools, Carnegie Library, Norwalk Hospital, State Ar- mory, electric lights, electric street rail- roads, waterworks, National and sav- ings banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. The town has manufac- tures of paper boxes, stoves, earthen- ware, machinery, builders' hardware, air compressors, locks, cigars, elastic web- bing, woolen goods, corsets, shirts, shoes, straw and fur hats, etc. It also has a large coast trade, and an extensive oyster industry. Pop. (1910) 24,211; (1920) 27,743. NOBWALK, a town and county-seat of Huron co., 0.; on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, the Lake Shore Electric, and the Wheeling and Lake Erie railroads; 56 miles W. S. W. of Cleveland. It has a public library, waterworks, electric street railroad, Na- tional banks, several daily and weekly newspapers, and manufactories of pi- anos, shoes, plows, sewing machines, automobile accessories, tobacco, besides railroad machine shops. Pop. (1910) 7,852; (1920) 7,379. NOB WAY (Norwegian, Norge), a country in the N. of Europe, bounded on the N. E. by Russian Lapland, and E. by Sweden, and washed on all other sides by the sea; by the Arctic Ocean on the N., the Atlantic and the North Sea on the N. W. and W., and the Ska- ger-rack on the S. It is about 1,080 miles in length, and its greatest breadth is about 275 miles, but toward the N. narrows so much as to be in some places not more than 20 miles; area, 124,130 square miles; pop. (1910) 2,391,782; (1918, est.) 2,632,010. Topography. — The coast consists chiefly of bold precipitous cliffs, and is remarkable both for the innumerable islands by which it is lined, and the bays or fiords which cut deeply into it in all directions. The surface is very mountainous, particularly in the W. and N. Very commonly the mountain masses assume the form of great plateaux or table-lands, called f jelds or fields, as the Dovre Fjeld, Hardanger Fjeld, etc. The highest summits belong to the Sogne Fjeld, a congeries of elevated masses, glaciers, and snow fields in the center of the S. division of the kingdom, where rise Galdhoepig (8,400 feet), the Glitre- tind (8,384), and Skagastolstind (7,879). The few important rivers that Norway can claim as exclusively her own have a S. direction, and discharge themselves into the Skager-rack; of these the chief are the Glommen (400 miles), and its affluent the Lougen. The most impor- tant river in the N. is the Tana, which forms part of the boundary between Rus- sia and Norway, and falls into the Arc- tic Ocean. The prevailing rocks of Nor- way are gneiss and mica-slate, of which all the loftier mountains are composed. The most important metals are iron, cop- per, silver, and cobalt, all of which are worked to a limited extent. Climate. — The climate of Norway is on the whole severe. The harbors on the W., however, are never blocked up with ice; but in places more inland, though much farther S., as at Christiania, this regularly happens. Industries. — rThe farms are generally the property of those who cultivate them, and commonly include a large stretch of mountain pasture, often 40 or 50 miles from the main farm, to which the cattle are sent for several months in summer. The rearing of cattle is an extensive and profitable branch of rural economy. There were in Norway in 1917 246,634 farms. Live stock is an important in- dustry. The chief sources of wealth are forests and fisheries. There are nearly 100,000 persons engaged in cod fisheries, and about 30,000 in other fisheries. The total value of fisheries in 1918 amounted to 85,292,024 kroner. There are valu- able deposits of iron ore, but the lack of coal prevents smelting. Silver, copper ore, and nickel also exist. Power for manufacturing is furnished chiefly by water. In 1917 there were 6,886 manu- facturing establishments, employing 161,772 persons. In 1916 the total value of imports was 1,353,664,900 kroner, and of the exports 988,333,000 kroner. The chief imports were carriages and ma- chinery, unworked metals and bi*ead stuffs. The chief exports were animal products, timber, and wooden goods. Manufactures include cotton, woolen, flax, and silk tissues. Distilleries, brick works, saw and flour mills, are numer- ous; and there are foundries, machine works, lucifer-match works, tobacco fac- tories, and sugar refineries. Norway is