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in other scenes. In illustration I may cite the following 

 account of the Horningdalsrokken, a peak crowning one 

 of the finest precipices in Norway. Mr John P. 

 Campbell, the writer of a little book entitled How to 

 See Norway, states that he was the first Englishman who 

 reached the top, and he gives the following account of 

 his ascent : ' I arrived ' at Haugen on the evening 

 of the 27th July 1866. Lars Elias, the station-master, 

 gave me some porridge and a bed, and next day we two 

 started about 5.30 A.M. in a cart. Our drive was some 

 three and a-half miles up the valley to a saeter, where we 

 left the cart-horse and cart, and the rest of the way waa 

 on foot. Two miles or so brought us near to the head of 

 the glen, eventually getting clear of the forest, and to a 

 green knoll which overlooked a tarn. This water was 

 probably 1000 feet above the level of the sea ; and almost 

 vertical from its margin rose the peak we had in view a 

 straight wall of rock between 3000 and 4000 feet high. 

 The summit, seen from below, appeared to terminate in a 

 ruined tower ; but it was not so (as I afterwards found), 

 being in reality a ridge, of which we only saw the end. 



1 The ascent from where we stood looked uninviting 

 enough ; but Lars had been up several times before, and 

 never hesitated about the route. We followed a corry 

 sheltered by this wall of crag, up to a col, or slack, which 

 it took us one and a-half hours to reach. It was very stiff 

 climbing; and from the steepness and slippery nature of 

 the ground, the descent of this portion on our return was 

 quite as slow. For a long way up there was verdure, 

 including ferns and bilberries, which decked the slopes 

 leading between fjeldhammer as crags forming terraces 

 across a mountain side are called but a3 we approached 

 the col this disappeared. We were now on the upper part 

 of a field of neve 7 , from which flowed a glacier down the 

 reverse side of the fell. Gently rising now in a direction 

 parallel to the glen, we traversed the neVe^ the ridge being 

 above us on our left. The snow was just right for walking 

 on, and there was no difficulty in winding round to its 



