Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : [New England Magazine Co.]
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OVERCOME BY THE ENGINEER CORPS. North Sea, the small boats theijin use—so-called yachts—beindspecially well adapted to the narrow water ways or fjords fringingthe scarf-like peninsula. Now greaships like the Augusta Victoria saifrom New York to Hamburg, thencjto Spitzbergen, taking Norway qroute. If Norway is approached fron A CHAPTER OF NORWAY. 235
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BRIDGES BOTH STRAIGHT AND CURVED. ither of these directions, the sceniceauty begins to unfold at once, andthe proper moment be chosen—•om the middle of May to the last ofuly—the effects are greatly height-ned by the prolongation of daylights one travels northward. It is safe toiy that the delights of this journeyre among the greatest in human ex-erience. Norways situation is, as-onomically considered, most inter-ring. The unending twilights of the summer in the south, the full light ofday at midnight in the north, furnishvariety and peculiarities exceedingany of the kind known to travellerselsewhere. The Norwegians have been quickto avail themselves of the advantagesaccruing to their country by foreigntravel, and with marvellous engineer-ing skill have constructed highwaysthat are models for far older condi-tions. The foundations are laid with

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