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the absolute impossibility of being certain as to whether 

 the inlets which you pass in hundreds are fiords running 

 into the main or mere channels between groups of islands, 

 coupled with the fact that there is comparatively little 

 traffic in the minor fiords except such as is carried on by 

 native boats and barges, we can easily conceive that there 

 are many dark friths along that coast which are as little 



A FIOIID SEEN FROM ABOVE. 



known to travellers now, as they were in the days when 

 Rolf Ganger issued from them with his vikings to conquer 

 Normandy and originate those families from which have 

 sprung the present aristocracy of England. 



"\Ve ascended a fiord of this kind which we knew had 

 not up to that time been visited, because there was a 

 glacier at the head, which is mentioned by Professor 



