208 Professor Hansteen’s Remarks made on a Journey 
s mean of four observations by the barometer, gave the height of 
Kongsberg above the level of the sea at 479 Rhenish feet. 
About DunsOrud, which lies a Norwegian mile ^ on this 
side of Kongsberg, we begin already to enter the mountainous 
region ; but as a good carriage road is kept for the sake of 
the silver-works all the way to Kongsberg^ the inconvenience 
of mountain travelling is not felt till we are on the west side 
of that town. Por a mile farther on, till you come to Moe, 
a small carriage may get on with difficulty ; but the whole of 
the rest of the way must be travelled on horseback or on foot, 
and all baggage must be carried balanced on each side of a horse. 
To my misfortune I still kept my little car, and as my aged 
guide, as he has since acknowledged, had not been that way for 
the last forty years, he mistook the road, and while, to recover 
it again, he drove along foot-paths, through bushes and under- 
wood, which threatened every moment to upset the car, or at 
least to tumble out the instruments, in an instant, horse and car 
sunk deep in a morass, from which he succeeded in getting them 
drawn out, after four peasants had toiled at the work for an 
hour and a half with all their strength. 
After you come to the farm-house of Bolkesio, you have to 
ascend a considerable hill, called Bolkeheia, the height of which 
above the sea we found to be 1763 feet. Here you are suddenly 
struck with the sight of an imposing range of mountains. Five 
different mountains, like a row of the scenes of a theatre, shew 
themselves in the back ground, each more distant and higher 
and bluer than the others. Farther back Gousta raises his ma- 
jestic summit, like a sharp-pointed wedge. From this place the 
road again descends till you come to Tindsioe, the height of 
which we found to be 612 feet. 
My little adventure in the morass between Kongsberg and 
Bolkesio, had detained me so long, that though, on the 24th of 
June, I had set out by nine in the morning, I did not reach 
Bolkesio till about five in the afternoon, completely exhausted 
by the burning heat of the sun. At Bue water, at a height of 
1471 feet above the level of the sea, the thermometer stood at 
18*^ of Reaumur (72|® Fahr.), in the shade, at a quarter after 
* The Norwegian mile is nearly seven English, about Translator, 
