Justedaly and to the Mantle of Lodal. S6S 



tain was, in different places, covered with two sorts of lichen, 

 L. geographicu3 and another. A bear, whose gloomy disposition 

 must have conducted it to these solitudes, had left its traces on 

 the snow which had fallen within two days, and the laugh-re- 

 sembling voice of a single ptarmigan was heard. With these 

 exceptions, organic life and vegetation had disappeared, and 

 eternal winter had taken up its abode all around. From the 

 summit was seen an ocean of snow, of several thousand geogra- 

 phic square miles extent, the waves of which seemed as if they 

 had been instantaneously fixed, and over which single mountain- 

 tops here and there raised their white heads, which in the val- 

 leys were hid in the clouds. Skatolstop * in Lyster, Tunder- 

 dalskirk towards Lomb, and Vangsen in Justedal, were the most 

 remarkable. All was the stillness and desolation of death, which 

 irresistibly filled the soul with melancholy, mingled with a power- 

 ful impression of the greatness of Nature. 



The author here mentions, that, on two places in the glacier, 

 they saw a little red snow : after which, he takes a survey of 

 the adjoining region in all directions, in which he traces by name 

 twenty-five distinct valleys, which, to a great extent, had been 

 filled with layer upon layer of ice from this immense mountain. 

 Heathen proceeds : — Our descent from LodaPs Mantle, after they 

 had got past the naked rocks, was quick and easy, and, after 

 having sojourned for nineteen hours in the regions of ice and 

 snow, we returned to Stordal with weakened eyes, and with 

 swollen faces and lips. 



The river of Justedal has its source from the glacier of Lodal, 

 in the upper and north-west end of Lodal. After running the 

 whole length of Justedal, it falls into a small arm of Lysterfiord, 

 near the farm of Rodnei. Many small rivers from the other 

 glaciers of Justedal, and the adjoining mountains, unite with it, 

 the most of which have fallen into it before it reaches Elvekrogen. 

 It brings down with it great quantities of sand and mica, which 

 are found chiefly on its banks near its source. Its waters have a 

 greyish muddy appearance, by which rivers which come from 



• This is one of those remarkable mountains called the Young Harlots. 

 Its height is ascertained to be 6975 feet above the sea. It is south-east from 

 I^ysterfiord, and is seen very far off. 



