Yeomen Farmers in Norway, 384
condition of peasant proprietors in 1834, 385
the _Odels ret_, or Allodial Right, _ib._
division of land, 386
life on the _Soeters_, 387
private distillation of spirits prohibited, 388,
pauperism, _ib._
illegitimacy, 390
the agrarian class permanently represented in the Storthing, 391, _ib._
attraction of the rural population to towns, 392
rate of wages, 393
railways, _ib._
dress and ornaments, 394
value of money, _ib._
classification of properties, 395
increasing subdivisions of land, 397, 398
creation of _Myrmaend_ in South Trondhjem, 397
influence of American competition in corn, _ib._
absence of good economy, 399
fare of the rural population, _ib._
heavy indebtedness of the farmers, 400
Banks and Savings Banks, 401-402
sales of real property for debt, 403
primitive condition of agriculture, 405
heavy and increasing charges on landed properties, 406
Poor Relief, _ib._
increase of paupers, 407, 408
emigration, _ib._
political agitators, 409
Church Disestablishment, _ib._
hereditary nobility abolished, 409, _note_
effects of subdivision of land in Norway, &c., 410
Lady Verney on peasant proprietors, 410, _note_.