ENTOMOLOGICAL TRAVELS IN NORWAY. 17 



The strongly-swollen mountain streams, as also the very 

 considerable masses of snow, frustrated my intention of 

 ascending Snohatten, and I spent the following day in 

 visiting the nearer heights, which were clothed at the base 

 with birch reaching to the knee-timber region, which was 

 here formed of Juniperus nana. 



Around the inn at Jerkin I collected Phaca frigida, 

 Ranunculus glacialis, Pedicularis Oederi and flarnmeay 

 Gnaphalium Alpinum, Astragalus Alpinus, Draha hirta, 

 3felandrium apetalunij which are generally plants of the 

 loftiest granite Alps, but my captures of insects were much 

 less noticeable. 



I determined to devote the time which I had gained, by 

 abandoning the idea of visiting Snohatten, to an excursion 

 through Romsdal to the sea at Molde. I therefore started 

 very eai'ly in the morning of Friday, July 10th, left all my 

 luggage at Dombaas, from which place I should have to con- 

 tinue my journey to Christiania, and provided for a three or 

 four days' excursion and hastened onwards. The Romans' 

 Valley is renowned as one of the most beautiful in Norway, 

 and fully justifies its reputation. 



From Nystuen, which is the fifth station from Dombaas, 

 to beyond Ormen, a distance of more than a Swedish mile, 

 the Roumen forms one incessant waterfall, to which water- 

 falls contribute from all sides, and which, broken a thousand 

 times by the giant masses of rocks in its bed, heaps cascade 

 upon cascade and rolls thunderingl}'- along. Frequently 

 nothinoj can be seen of the strono; wild stream, althouoh the 

 opposite bank is quite close, but one hears close by the rush 

 and roar of the torrent, and discovers that the entire mass of 

 water has, bubbling and boiling, worn a way through a 

 fissure of a few fathoms breadth, and reappears lower down 

 lashed to foam. The stream sometimes runs so close to the 



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