Identifier: norwayitsglacier00forb (find matches)
Title: Norway and its glaciers, visited in 1851 : followed by journals of excursions in the high Alps of Dauphné, Berne and Savoy
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Forbes, James David, 1809-1868
Subjects: Glaciers
Publisher: Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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notonly of bringing the respectable community of Ulfo intoalmost weekly communication with the mainland, but itgratifies the traveller with a closer insight into the sceneryand formation of these astonishing islands. The range ofLofoddens, with the exception of a few insignificant isletsat the extreme end, are so closely dovetailed or articulatedinto one another, that they appear in every point of viewas a continuous ridge of land. They may indeed notinaptly be compared to the vertebrae of an animal (theisland of Kost being the coccyx), bare and knotted, jaggedall over with processes, and united so closely as to resist atevery point the insinuation of a foreign body. Right up tothis formidable barrier did our little steamer urge its steadycourse, and grope out a channel, imperceptible until en-tered, between the two large islands already named. This * These fish are chiefly dried without salt in the sun and wind, a pro-cess peculiar to the clear dry climate of Nordland and Finmarken.
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Ld QQ OU.O O Z co i UJ h-u.< LOFODDFN — RAFTE-SUND. 03 remarkable channel is called the Rafte-sund. It is a tor-tuous canal of 14 or 15 English miles in length, andalways narrow, but with abundant depth of water, fromwhich the land rises steeply, and even precipitously, oneither side, but particularly on the west—perhaps thehighest points of Lofodden being those of the island ofVaago, which attain a height of between 3000 and 4000feet, and seem to rise almost out of the waters of the Rafte-sund, especially near its entrance, which presented a sceneof imposing grandeur. On our return voyage, just as theglorious beams of the sinking sun seemed to have put toflight the clouds which during the day (by an unusualchance), had concealed the higher tops, and which, divid-ing the peaks in two by long fleecy tracks of ruddy mist,slowly disclosed their entire sublimity as the vapourmelted imperceptibly away. The A iguilles of Vaago resemble those of Chamouni inform and general structure,

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