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fireworks was given before the king's palace, and music 

 and dancing enlivened the public squares. With the 

 history of this festival I am not acquainted, but there 

 must be a singular reverence for the past in a people who 

 can celebrate with such rejoicing as we were witness to, an 

 occurrence a thousand years old. I think we should have 

 some difficulty in getting up in England any enthusiasm 

 in honour of the deeds of King Alfred. 



On the second occasion, when I entered Christiania, 

 by way of the town of Drammen, I found there a most 

 interesting exhibition of all the products of the country, 

 from the North Cape to the Southern point, including 

 minerals, skins, timber, corn, harpoons, and even fish 

 hooks and trout flies. 



I should mention before closing that from reports I 

 have had from friends who had travelled over the same 

 ground, and also from the experience I have had myself, 

 in the two visits I have made, the trout fishing is somewhat 

 precarious. It is not always so superb, as I found it on 

 my first visit. That visit was made in the month of July, 

 and the season was mild and fine. My second journey 

 was in August, when the weather was much colder, and 

 the fishing very inferior. I found the trout on the second 

 occasion in quite different water to the first, and the spots 

 where I had been most successful yielded few fish. Still 

 I had such sport as I have never met with in England, 

 Wales, or Scotland, Two friends, who, since my visit, at 

 my suggestion, took this Fille Fjeld route in July, 

 reported only indifi'erently of their success ; one, who is 

 an experienced angler, saying he had only got a few 



