74 TRAVELS OF A NATURALIST 



On a bare ledge of a rock close to the old road— a some- 

 what j)eculiar situation — we found a Fieldfare's nest. 



The view from the top of Suletind is very fine. The 

 grand range of the rugged-peaked Jotunfjelds, Gallopoegen 

 towering in their midst, and innumerable small glaciers 

 sloping down the dark ravines. Though at a distance of 

 thirty-six miles, we could distinctly make out the crevasses 

 in the green ice, which peeped out here and there through 

 the snow. To the left, or west, and fifty-six miles distant, 

 visible past the western shoulder of the Jotunfjelds, a 

 peculiarly-shaped peak — Lodals-Kauben — rises over 6,000 

 feet from the centre of a sea of ice, the Justedal glacier. 

 Other smaller glaciers appear on other ranges, both to the 

 to the north-west and north-east. East of us rises a 

 mountain which is immediately above Blaaflaten, and 

 south-west, or nearly west, the mountains above Thune 

 are seen. 



Between us and the Jotun mountains lie the valleys I 

 have before mentioned, which we searched for Buzzards' 

 nests, each with its frozen lake, and, further off, the still 

 larger and still ice-bound lakes of the Tuen Vand, etc. 



For half an hour we remained on the top, having 

 lunch, a pipe, and a snooze, and then we descended the 

 opposite side of the mountain. 



We saw two more Snow Buntings, of which I shot one, 

 a male ; nests no go ; and we caught a couple of young 

 Lemmings, about half-grown, after a hard dig under big 

 stones, for which we had what Kab — my keeper at Duni- 

 pace, when digging out a dead rabbit — would call a ' royal 

 howk.' These animals have not increased as was expected, 

 and the people now think they must have been on the 

 Fjelds all winter, and are now disappearing. 



We found quantities of Eens-dyr Bloomst growing on 

 the sides of Suletind, and during the day specimens of 

 the Iceland Moss (Svin-moss) were pointed out by Ole. 



