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of his first home, had been without adequate objects : 

 new channels were opened for the long pent-up streams 

 to How in. 



When the summer of 1851 came, Forbes took the 

 house of Craigieburn, a romantic spot on Motfat Water, 

 and there he left Mrs. Forbes and his young children, 

 while he set off on the 21st of June for the Fiords of 

 Norway. As this was the last of his foreign tours, our 

 narrative must turn aside for a while, not only to describe 

 this Norway summer, but to cast a retrospective glance 

 over all the summers he spent abroad from 1835 till 

 1851. 



