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Identifier: norwaynightsruss00davi (find matches)
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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VAV NIGHTS. One must be prepared in Norway even more thanin Switzerland for heat in the valleys and wintercold on the heights ; but our experience found thetemperature usually very equable. The days drivewas delightful, but not especially picturesque ; theRomsdal was still beyond sight, but we learnedthat for fishermen and huntsmen this region is aparadise. All the way from Lilliehamar the guide-books indicate detours for these healthful amuse-ments and for mountain excursions. We had leftthe Lougen several miles behind, and as we nearedStueflatten, our station for the night, the roadskirts the Rauma, which just presents itself in anarrow, precipitous ravine through which it tum-bles in roaring haste. The solitary farm-housestands at the head of the gorge, and enjoys oppor-tunities to muse oer flood and fell that mustbe maddening when enforced the year round. Itmay have been this which had petrified the prettygirl who served our supper into a statue of sad
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yo NOJ^WAY NIGHTS. silence; not a muscle of her face moved in re-sponse to our admiration of the pale-yellow carna-tions in the window, or of the perfection of thepankagen. I peeped into the quaint kitchenand asked permission to sketch the characteristicchimney. The whole household inspected as thework went on, and suggested sundry additionsbehind the foreground and beyond the linearperspective which if followed out would havecompelled me to tear down a wall and make thedrawing from the outside. After the road leaves Stueflatten it descends bya series of rapid zigzags, and within a distance ofseven miles there is a marvellous succession ofbeautiful waterfalls, some of them tumbling be-tween perpendicular walls of basalt rocks untilthey culminate in the grand Slettefos. Here wealighted and crossed the river over a bridge ofpine-logs to a ledge below the overhanging rocks,where the roar is loudly reverberated. Flood THE GUDBRANSDAL. 91 upon flood hurries on, never ending, of waterslashe

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