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sometimes called, although in N. latitude 53° or thereabouts, has a 
wonderfully mild climate, owing to its sheltered position. 
The Romsdal, or the valley of the Rauma, is one of the 
| grandest mountain valleys in the whole of Norway. 
The Romsdal Horn, which guards the pass, is 5,000 feet high— 
the ascent of this mountain, which was accomplished for the first 
_ time in 1827, is said to be more dangerous than that of the 
Matterhorn. At the foot of the mountain is seen a series of 
terraces, which are so wonderfully flat-topped and evenly sloping 
as to give one an idea at first that they are artificial. These 
terraces mark, in the same way as do those at Odde, the former 
level of the fjord in a by no means remote past. 
The town of Throndhjem is the most northerly of all the larger 
towns of Europe, being in the latitude of the south coast of 
Iceland. It lies on a peninsula at the mouth of the Nid. Ofthe 
town and its interesting old Cathedral, I must, from lack of time, 
say nothing. Near the town there are two famous falls, where 
the whole of the river comes down in one magnificent leap of 100 
feet. 
At the mouth of the valley of the Nid, and in many places on 
the coast near Throndhjem, the old marine terraces are numerous, 
and very beautifully marked. Miller has recently mapped no 
_ fewer than forty-five of these terraces one above the other, and all 
marking short pauses in the upward movements of the land. 
They are chiefly in greenish clay, like brick-clays, and the smaller 
terraces remind one of ‘the incised lines and little planes 
engraved on the sandbanks bordering rivers in flood.” 
The first object of real interest which is to be seen in coasting 
from Throndhjem northwards, is the curious hill of Torghatten 
on the island of Torget, in N. latitude 653°, therefore a little 
‘south of the Arctic Circle. It is a hill of granite about 800 feet 
_high, and in shape somewhat resembles a sailor’s waterproof hat. 
‘It is an excellent example of the rounded dome-shaped hills 
produced by the action of the glacial ice-sheet. 
At a height of from 500 to 600 feet above sea-level, this hill of 
Solid granite is pierced by a natural tunnel 520 feet long, and 
