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along a country road ascending still higher among small trees. The 

 weather was too wet at first for collecting, as flies must be kept 

 dry ; but in the course of an hour or two the mists l)ecame thinner and 

 the sun came out. Flies were abundant, and most of those collected 

 could be readily identified as belonging to species which are known to 

 occur also in North America. Some require further study. 



After two nights and a day of travel by boat up the Norwegian 

 coast, the town of Trondhjem was reached. This is a city of 55,000 

 population, situated in latitude 63 degrees 26 minutes, or a little 

 farther north than the northern extremity of Labrador. I arrived here 



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Fig. 93. — Bergen, Norway, looking north. 



July 13, and remained two days, but the weather was continuously 

 rainy and cold, so I could not collect. 



I then left by rail and proceeded eastward into Sweden, continuing 

 in the same latitude. The railroad climbs the low mountain range, 

 entering Sweden near the divide. The first Swedish town, Storlien, 

 was where I intended to stop, but on account of the higher altitude it 

 was even colder and rainier than Trondhjem ; so I continued eastward, 

 changing from the national railway of Norway to that of Sweden, and 

 stopped at Are, a small tourist place on the river of the same name. 

 The Are River widens into a lake here, from which the slopes of the 

 low mountains rise so abruptly that there is only a little land that can be 

 cultivated, close to the lake, and even this is very steep. On account 



