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Title: Norway nights and Russian days
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Davis, S. M. Henry
Subjects: Norway -- Description and travel Russia -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Fords, Howard, & Hulbert
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ntentment in the figures1689! THE ROMS DAL. 107 As we proceeded down the Nord fiord themountains became higher and more imposing,until the steamer turned ahnost at right anglesinto that superb water-defile, the Geiranger fiord,which one writer pronounces the culmination ofall the fiords of that region, its only rival in Nor-way, perhaps in the world, being the Nero fiord,which it resembles. Its dark, unmeasured depthsare walled by rocky clifts, often perpendicular,which rise to the height of three thousand to fourthousand feet. Countless light, gauzy waterfallsdescend from their summits, often uniting in oneroaring mass ; stunted firs and birches cling where-ever their roots can find support, and adventurousflowers sway from the crevices. Our liciurd pathis so narrow and the curves so abrupt that thesteamer sometimes appears to be running sharplyagainst the rocks, while the spray of the fallsbathes it in a gentle shower. When winter reignssupreme, avalanches of snow and stones thunder
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THE ROMSDAL. 109 down from these majestic bastions, whose tops arenever touched by the sun, except for a brief houror two at high noon. And yet in this awful soH-tude a few human beings Hve and move and pre-serve their being. We saw two cabins on differ-ent mountains, almost overhanging the ledge likeeagles nests. The small grassy plateaux on whichthey stand are at least two thousand feet from theblack flood below ; an apparently perpendicularpath and a tiny boat forming the only means ofcommunication with the world. A cow thatgrazes on the mountain-top, and perhaps a coupleof goats, furnish milk. Goats and babies are teth-ered to the threshold or the rocks, but adults haveoccasionally by a fatal misstep been precipitated, ■ Low and lower, to their watery graves,With downward face and wide-spread hair! When a death occurs in winter, the body is laidaway in snow until the return of spring permits NORIVAY NIGHTS. interment in the nearest village cemetery. It isinconceivable that all t

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