30 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 upa 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 rise to the height of 2000 feet, but 
there is nothing bold and decided in their forms, and after 
the splendid fiords uf the western coast the scenery appears 
tame and commonplace. The boatmen pulled well, and 
they slept at Ole’s gaard, 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 mist 
visit the fall and return. 
* Such excursions must be made in Carrioles, the usual conveyance of the country 
They may be described as very low seated 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 orless 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, 
