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deep ; near the railway bridge by which it is crossed, the 

 logs have been collected into floating islands of wood, 

 begirt and confined by a chain, of which the links are 

 logs, logs with a hole bored at either end, and tied one to 

 another by withes. As we proceed we see the river 

 bearing hundreds and thousands of logs onward to this 

 gathering-place. The size of the river, compared with the 

 size of these, suggests the idea of some boys having 

 emptied into a brook a hundred, or a thousand, or a 

 hundred thousand boxes of matches, and we looking on 

 seeing them floating away. Again and again we came 

 upon a little fall, one of three or four feet, and there the 

 logs came tumbling down sometimes sideways, sometimes 

 slanting, sometimes head foremost, kicking up their heels 

 in the air. 



The river is broad, it comes curving along through 

 woodlands, these partly concealed ; and I felt as if I 

 could realise the graphic picture given by Hugh Miller 

 of a river in pre-Adamic times bringing down the forestal 

 products which afterwards were converted into fields of 

 coal. 



The Glommen is the principal river in Norway. It 

 orginates in the lake Oresund, under the 62 of north 

 latitude, and runs southward about 90 miles through a 

 rugged channel full of cataracts and shoals. One of its 

 r confluents is the Worm, which flows through Lake 

 Myosen. Before their confluence it is as large as the 

 Thames at Putney, and about 20 miles below this it flows 

 into the sea at Frederickstadt. Its highest cataract is 

 that of Sarpen, which is 60 feet perpendicularly, and is 

 not far from its influx into the sea. 



In regard to Norwegian forests, I have heard a tourist in 

 Norway complain that he had seen none. He had seen 

 what I had seen of Bohus Bay and Christiania Fiord. He 

 had visited Myosen Lake, and, if I mistake not, gone as 

 far as Lillehammer, but he had only seen such like young 

 woods as I have described as seen on the Torrisdalelv. I 



