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Aalesund abounds Alten arriving ascended bank beautiful Bergen boat branch carriage carriole Chris Christiania Christiansand church coast Denmark descends dist distance district Dovre Dovre Fjeld Drammen Eidsvold Elv is crossed English excursion fall Fast Stations feet fishing Fjeld glacier Glommen going grand Hammerfest Hardanger Fjord head Hemsedal hence hills hilly horse-track horses houses island Justedal Kautokeino king Kongsberg Kongsvinger land Lapps leads leaving Leirdalsören Levanger Lillehammer Loffodens miles Molde moun mountains Næs Namsen Norsk North Cape Norway Norwegian numerous Olaf passed peasants picturesque Post reindeer Riukan-fos river road rock Romsdalen Röraas round route salmon salmon-fishing scenery seen shooting side Sjö Skaalpunds Skien Sogne Fjord splendid stage Stat Stavanger steamer steep Storthing stream summer Sweden tains taken Tellemarken thence tiania tion town traveller Trondhjem trout Ulvik valley Vand Vöring-fos Vossevangen waterfall whence wild wind
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Page 137 - moments solitude also is invaluable ; for who would speak, or be looked upon, when behind him lies all Europe and Africa fast asleep, except the watchmen; and before him the silent Immensity, and palace of the Eternal, whereof our sun is but a porch lamp?"— Sartor
Page 138 - lay around us, in different degrees of distance, but all with foreheads touched with supernatural glory. Far to the NE was Nordkyn, the most northern point of the mainland of Europe, gleaming rosily and faint in the full beams of the sun, and just as our watches denoted midnight, the
Page 138 - of the southern sky seemed to shine through a net of golden gauze. The headlands of this deeply indented coast—the capes of the Laxe and Porsanger Fjords, and of Mngeroe, lay around us, in different degrees of distance, but all with foreheads touched with supernatural glory. Far to the
Page 138 - fires, and with the gorgeous colouring of an hour for which we have no name, since it is neither sunrise nor sunset, but the blended loveliness of both—but shining at the same moment, in the
Page 45 - with amendments to the Odelsthing ; after being agreed to, it requires the sanction of the king before it can become a law. But if a bill passes through both divisions in 3 successive Storthings, on the third occasion it becomes the law of the land without the royal assent. The
Page 137 - the sun lay in a bed of saffron light, over the clear horizon of the Arctic Ocean. A few bars of dazzling orange cloud floated above him, and still higher in the sky, where the saffron melted through delicate rose colour into blue, hung like wreaths of vapour, touched with pearly, opaline flushes of pink and golden gray. The sea was a web of pale
Page 122 - evidently much rejoiced at the idea of rejoining his wife and family. He was also anxious to inform his countrymen who we were, and what brought us here, as he had some fear lest they should take alarm, and move off with their herd. He soon returned, and at the same time we saw a
Page 119 - exceedingly good. Travellers going North should order horses here, those going to Trondhjem at Helle. It was here that in 1612, during the war between Christian IV. of Denmark and Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, and after having made an ineffectual attempt upon Trondhjem,
Page 136 - is brought by the Gulf Stream here. " Think of Arctic fishers burning upon their hearths the palms of Hayti, the mahogany of Honduras, and the precious woods of the Amazon and Orinoco."—
Page 124 - It was nearly midnight before our interesting conference was brought to a close. At length Nielsen asked us in a civil, I might almost say in a polite, manner whether we felt disposed to sleep. To this we assented ; and when all was quiet, I surveyed with no little interest the scene