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Norvig, at the head of the Fasmund, which is a swollen 

 stream, called here a lake. Near this point there is a 

 pass to the left, ' where a rough path leads to the high 

 road to RoraSs from Hudviksvall on the Baltic.' Here 

 they crossed the Norwegian frontier. 



The Faemundsjo is 2,150 feet above the sea and 

 35 miles long. This beautiful sheet of water has peculiar 

 scenery not possessed by any other Norwegian or Swedish 

 lake ; its shores are not abrupt, and in many places they 

 are thinly clad with fir, and birch, and. fine reindeer 

 moss. The clear water swarms with fish, and wild rein- 

 deer browse upon its shores. 1 Its outlet, the Klara 

 (clear) river, flows into Lake Venern. The exploring 

 party made their way through the defiles of the moun- 

 tains and looked upon the sister kingdoms. 



On July 30 the geographer, Nasman, gives a mar- 

 ginal sketch of the rivers and lakes and Dalecarlia gen- 

 erally, as he ' pervestigated it' (1734, Dalekarliam 

 occidentalem et orientalem pervestigavit). On July 31 

 Emporelius, the * zoologus,' makes a sketch of a rein- 

 deer as if they first saw reindeer that day. The youths 

 all shouted as they saw the comical portrait in the book. 

 The intense stillness was broken into echoes by their 

 shouts. Emporelius modestly admitted he was no great 

 artist as the others were. He drew the lichens and the 

 reindeer-moss these much more carefully and delicately 

 in the diluted ink. They now stood on that highest point 

 where there are no more hills, but one looks below into a 

 1 Du Chaillu. 



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