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road, in alder underwood. After about half a dozen 

 English miles of this fine scenery we ascended a hill at 

 the top by a series of seventeen steep zigzags similar to 

 the Vindhellen at Husum in the Loerdal valley, and made 

 by the same engineer (Captain Finne). This is called 

 Stalheim Cleft, and on each side of it is a fine waterfall 

 which were named the Saloklevfos and the Stalheimsfos. 

 While our horses drew the carioles slowly up the 

 tortuous ascent, we who reached the top looked back, 

 and Alston took a rapid sketch of the glorious valley we 

 had left, we being seated some couple of hundred feet 

 above the tops of the waterfalls. So sharp were the 

 zigzags that from where we were sitting I could throw 

 a stone down over five of them, and the arms of each 

 zigzag were not more than fifty yards in length. 



We changed horses near the top, on the other side, 

 and drove on, down into a wide fir- wooded valley, and 

 far in the distance before us were the Snowy Fjelds. 

 We saw here a good deal of heather, rare in this country. 



At Tvinde we had a cup of milk and some bad ' flad- 

 brod og smoer ' at a most wretched hovel of a station- 

 house, and the woman looked sulky at getting 12 sk. 

 for it. 



Thence we went on through a somewhat similar 

 country to Tvinde, near which is a rather good water- 

 fall, the Tvindefos. Here for the first time we had 

 a girl as Shiitzgaaden, and a most uncomfortable seat 

 she must have had, to judge from appearances. During 

 this stage we passed numerous lakes, free of ice, on 

 which we saw a few Ducks and Divers, and we arrived 

 at Vossevangen after a 28-mile drive. The hotel there 

 looked comfortable, and the landlord (Fleischer) was 

 obliging and civil. 



After ' Aftensmal ' I took my gun and went over to a 

 thick fir-wood pine-trees but got nothing. I saw lots 



