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figure, gait, and countenance I found completely reproduced; and I 

 have never found this in other lands. 



The author of the volume entitled " Frost and Fire," already cited, 

 noted like similarities between words in the Norwegian and the Scottish 

 languages. At one place he writes, "A 'cow* here is ' nout/ as in 

 Scotland ; to walk is ' tootla,' ' toddle.' The Saetar girl and the guide 

 who lived about seven miles apart, have different dialects, at least so they 

 said; and in this they are like the natives of all mountainous districts, 

 from the Yorkshire dales to the antipodes." And again, a little later, 

 " We rowed over the fjord to the place where the priest sleeps when he 

 comes to preach ; there was not a living soul about the place when we 

 arrived, so I got in through a window and took possession of the 

 priest's room. As it grew dark, people came tumbling in from the 

 woods where they had been working, and we had a party round the 

 fire at one of the houses. I could not understand half they said, for 

 I had now got into a fresh dialect ; but I fancied my hostess was a 

 witch or a doctress, for men purchased mysterious oil from a bottle, 

 which was carefully weighed, and one pretty girl had a long conversation 

 about some one who had been sick, and who was now " frisk." 

 Presently the door opened, and the husband, with a wet bag and a creel 

 of live fish, tumbled in, and then we all sat with our faces lighted up 

 by the wood fire, chattering like a flock of gulls ; while a little girl, 

 who woke up at the noise, kept screaming like a young cormorant from 

 its nest, ' Moor, gie me fisk ; ' that is, ' Mother, give me fish.' " I have 

 met with the same thing in Finland, which was formerly connected 

 with Sweden, and is geographically connected with both Norway and 

 Sweden by Lapland. There I have met with a cruse o oeley, a cruse 

 of oil, and flitting tyd, or the flitting time. 



By another route, already indicated, the traveller may pass more or 

 less rapidly through the greater part of Denmark, and cross from 

 Frederickshavn to Gottenburg, in Sweden, by steamer sailing in con- 

 nection with a railway train, and arriving at Gottenburg in the evening, 

 about eight o'clock ; or Norway may be reached by steamers from Hull 

 to Gottenburg, and to Christiania; or by steamer from Leith to 

 Christiansand ; or by steamer from Hull to Bergen, touching at Sta- 

 vanger ; and there are steamers from London to one and another of 

 these ports. 



In Norway, in the interior, the traveller may find that he has entered 

 a land, the most marked characteristics of which are forests ant! fiords ; 

 " forests whose vastness and shade, and solitude and silence, banish in 

 an instant from the mind all associations with songs of birds and 

 gay sylvan scene ; " and combined with these are also " lakes whose 

 deep seclusion put to flight images of mere grace and beauty, valleys, 



