CHAPTER XVII. 
SAETER LIFE. 
Or 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 auother of those connected with this 
Sneefond of the Jostedal Breen, 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 us 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; 
