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the sides in grand thunderous cascades, bringing with 

 them rocks and stones, with occasional fatal results to 

 the cattle and sheep feeding in apparent security in 

 the woods below. Opposite the Troll tinderne on 

 the north-eastern side of the valley the Romsdal Horn 

 rears its untrodden head. It falls so sheer and smooth 

 towards the river that it affords no resting-place for 

 the snow, consequently no avalanches fall on this 

 side ; but occasionally, as from the Troll tinderne, a 

 huge rock is dislodged by time and weather ; and 

 sometimes I have seen one of these come down from 

 the very top, and marked its progress by the slight 

 puffs of smoke which long before the report reaches 

 the ear are plainly to be seen, as in its successive 

 leaps it comes in contact with the mountain side ; and 

 the length of time which elapses between the first 

 reverberation that makes one look up when the solid 

 mass takes its first spring from the summit, and the 

 last grape-shot clatter of its fragments at the foot of 

 the Horn, gives me some idea of the terrific pro- 

 portions of this wonderful rock. Sometimes I can 



