10 FORESTRY OF NORWAY. 
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 
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 
pot far from its influx into the sea. 
In regard to Norwegian forests, I have heard a tourist in 
Norway complain that be had seen none. He had seen 
what I bad 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. [ 
