SO FORESTRY OF NORWAY. 



For any other than Norwegian horses and wheels it 

 would have been hazardous travelling.* It was dark when 

 the new horses came ; and ten miles of forest lay before 

 us. We were ferried one by one across the Tind Elv on a 

 weak, loose raft, and got our carrioles up a frightful bank 

 on the opposite side by miraculous luck. Fortunately, we 

 struck the post-road from Hetterdal at this place, for it 

 would have been impossible to ride over such rocky bye- 

 ways as we had left behind us. A white streak was all 

 that was visible in the gloom of the forest. We kept in 

 the middle of it, not knowing whether the road went up, 

 down, or on a level, until we had gone over it. At last, 

 however, the forest came to an end, and we saw Tind Lake 

 lying still and black in the starlight. 



' In the morning we took a boat with four oarsmen for 

 Mael, and the mouth of the Westfiord-dal, on which lies 

 the Rinkan Foss. There was no end to our wonderful 

 weather. In rainy Norway the sky for once had forgotten 

 its clouds. One after another dawned the bright Egyptian 

 days, followed by nights soft, starry, and dewless. The 

 wooded shores of the Long Tind Lake were illuminated 

 with perfect sunshine, and its mirror of translucent beryl 

 broke into light waves under the northern breeze. . 

 The highest peaks ribe to the height of 2000 feet, but 

 there is nothing bold and decided in their forms, and after 

 the splendid fiords of the western coast the scenery appears 

 tame and commonplace. The boatmen pulled well, and 

 they slept at Ole's gaarfl, situated on a turfy slope, sur- 

 rounded with groves, above the pretty little church of Dal, 

 halfway between Mael and the cataract. They arrived 

 here about four o'clock, when the sun was about resting 

 his chin on the shoulder of the Gousta; and they must 

 visit the fall and return. 



* Su-3h excursions must be made in Carrioles, the usual conveyance of the country 

 They may be described as very low seattd long gigs, capable of seating only a single 

 person, who sits in a half-reclining posture. This is placed on very long shafts, which 

 are more or less elastic, and, extending behind for a considerable length, supply a 

 resting place for luggage, and for the lad who may have to fetch back the conveyance 

 or the horse to the station whence it may have been hired. J. C. B. 



