CHAPTER XVII. 



SAETER LIFE. 



OF most, if not of every one of the existing glaciers in 

 Norway, and they are numerous, Principal Forbes has 

 given an account with details, such as might be desiderated 

 by the special student of their phenomena, but which are 

 not so desiderated by the more general student of forest 

 science ; and sketches, not less graphic, of the phenomena 

 presented by one and another of those connected with this 

 l^neefond of the Jostedal BiaBen, is given by Williams 

 amongst others of the Lodal, one of the largest, if not the 

 largest, glacier in Norway, and of the Nygaard glacier ; 

 but enough has been adduced to give some idea of these 

 feeders of the rivers. 



Of the waterfalls details have been given sufficient to 

 suggest some of the varied appearances presented by them ; 

 and of the lake scenery there have been given incidental 

 notices, which leave them not altogether unknown. 

 Bayard Taylor, in an account given by him of a trip to 

 the Voring Foss, describes lake scenery and waterfalls in 

 combinations which show each a character of scenery as a 

 foil to the other. But the following description of the 

 Nisservand lake, by the author of a volume entitled Frost 

 and Fire, brings out as fully, and perhaps as effectively, the 

 combination of lake and woodland scenery and may prove at 

 once pleasing and more satisfactory. In the narrative 

 referred to the author writes : 



( The pasteur (whose guests he and his fellow travellers 

 had been) accompanied u,3 to the beach, where we found 

 a boat and two stout rowers in attendance. Pursuing our 

 course up the Nisser-Vand, the western shore still con- 

 tinued to present the same bold and barren appearance; 



