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Title: Norway and its fjords
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Wyllie, M. A
Subjects: Norway -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Methuen & Co. New York, J. Pott & co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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howing that money isnot what she is asking for. A carriage and horses candrive up this zigzag; but it is very hard work, the horsehaving to tack all the way. Lunch was waiting in the great wooden hotel, that hasbeen burnt down many times, when we arrived atStalheim. All was bustle as the tourists, who had comeoverland from Bergen via Vossevangen, were expected.It was rather a question if there would be sufficient roomfor the whole company. The maids serving were thesame type as our blonde English women, big of frame,fair skin, pretty yellow hair, and nice open faces. Weseemed such a crowd to be together at this lonely spot,amongst the magnificent views of valley and fjord.Steep bare mountains rising on every side, so immenselygrand in comparison with the noisy humans whose talkin the great saloon hushed and overmastered the roarof the waterfall hard by. Finishing first, we retracedour steps well ahead of our friends, and selected aquiet corner over the edge of the steep road tosketch.
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NAKKODAL GREAT JARDALSNUT 151 The rain-clouds were gathering, and slowly creepingup the valley. A grey misty veil hung over the fjord,which lay hidden by the overlapping mountains. Tothe left towered huge Jardalsnut, a mighty mass ofbare light grey syenite, made even bigger than hereally was by the overlapping mist. Nearer were themountains, patched with squares and odd markings ofbirch, beech, and fir, from amongst which issued longscars and rubble, the track of the ever-falling avalanches.To the right and left of us are the Sivelfos and theStalheimsfos, and below looking sheer down over thetops of the trees one can trace the river and the windingribbon-like road. Norways roads are excellent. Com-paratively speaking, no country has so many and suchgood ones, but as soon as one turns off from the mainroads to get to the farmsteads on the hill they canonly be termed paths, and very often rough ones atthat. It was raining fast when we regained our carts. Thelittle horses realised they w

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