Identifier: norwaycontaining00fore (find matches)
Title: Norway in 1848 and 1849: containing rambles among the fjelds and fjords of the central and western districts; and including remarks on its political, military, ecclesiastical, and social organization
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Forester, Thomas
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Publisher: London : Printed for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
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ust breaking into leaf,(now the 6th of July,) and deep drifts of frozen snow in someplaces formed the shore and extended into the water. The travellers spent the night at this farm, the accommodationsof which were wretched in the extreme; and in the morning, aftera plunge into the lake, the water of which being almost freezingand making ones flesh creep, and skin as red as a lobster, andhaving breakfasted on rye-grod and milk, they pursued theircourse aci-oss the isthmus which divides the two branches of theMios. Under ^the guidance of two boys from the farm wepassed over a wild moorland, on which were some cattle browsino-among birch-wood. There were large tracts of peaty moss. Thedesolation was extreme, and to increase it, a cold misty rain cameon. A seven miles walk brought us to the southern branch ofthe )\Iios Vand. It was here a deep, gloomy, narrow channel be-tween steep birch-clad banks. Having dismissed the boys, wecrossed the arm of the lake, and then ascended through a bare
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N^THOL. 119 eastern, andHammer-Fjeld on the western shore, rishigto five thousand feet and upwards, and the high pointsof the Hardanger chain which bounds the uppervalley of the Maen, which we now opened, were cappedwith snow. The river, so rapid and tumultuous belowthe fall, here winds for the most part placidly throughgreen pastures. The valley and river and mountainsmade a charming composition from a deserted shantystanding on a bank slightly elevated, where we haltedwhile my friend made a sketch of the scene. We weresurprised to find that it bore the name of Naethol, mountain valley to a farm, where we hoped to get horses to con-tinue our route to the Totak-Vand. The Journal describes the scenery of the Totak-Vand, which liesabout ten miles south-west of the Mios, as of the most charmingdescription, and in striking contrast with the desolate character ofthe former lake. The elevation of the Totak-Vand must be con-siderably lower, for the Journal speaks of descending to it througha

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