MOUNTAINS: AND: FJELDS. " 13k 
in other scenes,: In illustration I mayeite the’-following® 
account of the Horningdalsrokken, a peak crowning one- 
of ithe finest ‘precipices in Norway. Ma ‘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 acéount: 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 acart.. Our -drivé 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 was °- 
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. 
‘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 névé, 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 névé, 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 
