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cavalcade of two moved out again into the open, towards 

 Haeg, some two or three stations distant. The road 

 traverses what may be termed a pass, of great beauty, 

 through which flows a river, which has to a fisher 

 attractions almost equal to the beauteous landscape 

 itself. Such a stream is not to be found out of Norway, 

 Its water is as absolute pure, and gleams with colour as 

 bright, as the sky above it ; the average width of the 

 stream is some forty or fifty yards, now flowing in deep 

 unbroken current, now constricted by huge rocks to only 

 a dozen yards or so, and rushing through its channel in a 

 bounding mass almost sufficient to rive the very rocks 

 themselves, then dashed in its uneasy bed by a thousand 

 rocks and boulders, it urges on for a couple of miles, with 

 a roar that will allow you to hear nothing else when you 

 are anywhere near it. By this glorious river runs the 

 road, all the way from Ls^rdal to Haeg, at one time 

 perched far above it, at another sinking down almost to 

 its level. Where the road is highest, and where a shy 

 from your horse would plunge you over a perpendicular 

 cliff" into the roaring waters beneath, your protection 

 from the edge is not a solid wall, but some big stones 

 placed at the edge of the road, a yard apart. Here, 

 your stiff little horse, which rejoices in the situation, is 

 sure to set off at full gallop, and to stay not till he reaches 

 level ground at the foot of the road's declivity, or is pulled 

 up by the next rise. The interest of the situation is 

 even increased by the manner in which your horse is 

 harnessed to the carriole ; it is done in such a manner 

 that the breaking of a peg, about as strong as a common 



