16 ENTOMOLOGICAL TRAVELS IN NORWAY. 



is a small board, on which the boy or girl who has to take 

 the carriole back has to sit, and the narrow space in front 

 between the feet is all that is left for the disposal of one's 

 baggage, which should, therefore, be reduced to the most 

 moderate dimensions. The traveller is obliged to drive 

 himself, and that is not altogether so pleasant here as in 

 Jemtland, since on this much-visited and well-travelled road 

 the horses are not nearly so good as in that mountain district. 

 The effect produced on tourist routes in all directions by 

 a continual stream of foreigners, especially English people, 

 also makes itself tolerably sensible here, and as the patri- 

 archal simplicity and good humour gradually disappear, they 

 are replaced by selfishness and presumption. 



Here and there the neighbourhood is quite romantic ; at 

 WoUum the rocks overhanging the road were gaily adorned 

 with the richly-blooming wdiite tufts of Saxifraga Coty- 

 ledon, often more than a foot in length. At Soknas I met 

 with cultivated hops. Near Austbjerg and Nystuen the 

 road runs along the top of the mountain, often in deep cut- 

 tings of bare rock, having quite a picturesque appearance. 

 At one such place one sees the river 700 feet below covered 

 with foam, yet the roar of it does not reach to the height of 

 the traveller. 



Passing Drivstuen and a beautiful waterfall one attains at 

 Kongsvold the Alpine region, where the snow reaches down 

 to the very road. Here Silene acaulis, Papaver nudicaule, 

 Dri/as, Pedicularis, Saxifraga, Prhnula, bloom close by 

 the road ; but after passing Kongsvold the way goes over an 

 exposed stony table-land, across which the wind scours in- 

 cessantly, and all vegetation ceases. From this place, which 

 is the most elevated on the whole journey, the road descends 

 very abruptly to Jerkin, which lies in a beautiful broad 

 Alpine valley. 



