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' A little before reaching Ovne, or Aune station, there 

 were some of the most magnificent banks of pansies I ever 

 beheld. Several patches of above a hundred square yards 

 were covered with an unbroken carpet of these beautiful 

 little flowers, the variety, richness, and harmony of their 

 colours were most exquisite; they saturated the atmo- 

 sphere around with a delicious aroma, which was almost 

 intoxicating in its concentration. I lay down upon them 

 and slept for an hour or two, the sunbeams poured upon 

 me with a roasting heat, the rooks were cawing above, and 

 the river tumbling below, though yesterday and this 

 morning it was freezing, and the snow patches were still 

 visible in all the hollows of the craggy rocks above. I 

 dreamed of Oriental vapour baths, otto of roses, and 

 beautiful primroses just imported from the snowy 

 Caucasus, and selling in Covent Garden for a few shillings 

 per dozen/ 



Schneehaettan is visible near Staen, about fifteen 

 miles below the place where Murray speaks of it. It is 

 a more picturesque object from this point than from the 

 Dovre fjeld. A number of other snowy peaks are also 

 visible. Lakes are pretty numerous in Norway, but they 

 are comparatively small. While in Sweden there are 34 

 lakes of more than 100 square kilometres in size, in 

 Norway there are only 52 which exceed 25 square kilo- 

 metres. The superfices of all the lakes of Norway is 7600 

 square kilometres, or 2'4 per cent, of the whole area of the 

 country, while in Sweden lakes constitute 10 per cent, of 

 the area of the country. They abound most in Southern 

 Norway. There, in eight prefectures, is found one-half of 

 the superficies of the lakes of the whole country ; and they 

 constitute 4 per cent, of the area of these prefectures. 

 Many of the Norwegian lakes are of considerable depth, 

 so much so, that over wide districts the bottom is below 

 the level of the sea. Sometimes even they are deeper 

 than are the greater adjacent fiords. Thus the great lake 

 of Norway the Miosen has a depth of 457 metres, even 

 in the low water of winter. Its surface is then only 121 



