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was only after attaining it that we perceived the one to the eastward to 

 be rather higher, though the difference of elevation was not consider- 

 able. The view was one never to be forgotten. At the back were 

 considerable tracts of snow, with glaciers descending from them. In 

 front we looked over high mountanious islands, separated from us only 

 by a narrow sound, to more distant islands and rocks, and the ocean 

 beyond them aU. We saw the city of Tromsoe to our right, and fine 

 fiord scenery to our right and left ; but the sun was the grand object 

 by which our attention was as it were absorbed. It was just twelve 

 o'clock when we reached our highest elevation. The sun, which at this 

 late period of the summer went a short distance below the horizon to 

 the inhabitants of the lowlands, did not so to us, a space equal to about 

 half its diameter appearing to intervene between it and the sea. I 

 have seen the sun rise from a greater elevation, from the summit of 

 Etna, while the planet of the morning was still visible, and the neigh- 

 bouring towns and villages, with the city of Catania, were still in 

 obscure twilight ; but I was never so impressed with the glory of our 

 great luminary as on this artic midnight, when it appeared to combine 

 the beauties of sunrise and sunset, and cast a ruddy glow over the rocks 

 and snow among which we stood. 



On regaining the region of trees on our way down, we found tlie 

 vegetation, which had been pei'fectly dry at the time of our ascent, wet 

 with a heavy dew, and at four o'clock we returned on board the yacht, 

 already under weigh . 



We anchored to spend Sunday, 29th of July, not far from a station 

 called Kloven, in Sengen Island, whei'e the country, less mountainous, 

 was verdant and wooded, forming a beautiful natural park, and remind- 

 ing me of the lake scenery of England. The next day (30th), I got a 

 successful haul of the dredge in 150 fathoms which produced Limojisis 

 pijgmxa, the first time it had been obtained in a recent state, being 

 only hitherto known as a fossil of the crag : it forms an addition to the 

 interesting list of mollusca which inhabited the seas of England, or 

 where England now stands, at the time the crag formation was deposited, 

 but which have since retired into higher northern latitudes ; together 

 with it came up two very rare species of small Pectens, Chiton 

 alveolus, &c. 



On the 2nd of August, at Omnaes Oe, we first found to be ripe the 

 wild berries which were in flower when we were on our way northvvard, 

 and which thenceforward, till our departure from Norway, formed a 

 welcome addition to our daily bill of fare, being produced almost every- 

 where and in great abundance. On the 3rd of August, we repassed the 

 Arctic circle ; dredged a second specimen of Bu<-cimiw fusiformc, and two 



