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TOUli IN NORWAY. 
Jan., 1889. 
continuously between rocky islands and tlie main land, 
presenting a constant variety of fine scenery. 
Tromsoe was stopped at for a day, and the party took a 
two miles excursion from there up Tromsoedal to visit a Lapp 
encampment, where a herd of 200 reindeer was seen, the visitors 
going about amongst the reindeer and the Lapps. 
The Midnight Sun was seen the first time on 4th July, 
the night before getting to Tromsoe ; the steamer anchoring 
in a position clear of the islands before midnight, for the 
purpose of giving the party the anxiously expected sight. 
Hammerfest was visited on Friday morning, 6th July, and 
the same night we were on the top of the North Cape viewing 
the Midnight Sun again, a week from the time of leaving 
Bergen. The ascent is an hour’s walk from the ship; first a steep 
zig-zag climb of 800 feet, and then a mile walk to the summit, 
950 feet high. The North Cape is on an island named 
Mageroe, which we sailed round. 
The Svaerholt Bird-rock, near the North Cape, was visited 
previously ; it is a great rock rising abruptly out of the sea, 
1200 feet high, covered with enormous numbers of birds 
which suddenly, on the firing of a cannon, fill the air overhead 
with a white cloud like a heavy snowstorm. 
Lyngen Fjord was visited on the return, the steamer going 
up the fjord and back again, a two hours trip, for the sight 
of the fine jagged mountainous rocks, with picturesque 
glaciers. 
The great Svartisen glacier, which is just at the Arctic 
Circle, was visited ; the party landed in boats, and scrambling 
over the half-mile of old moraine that lies between the foot of 
the glacier and the sea, were then able to get a little way on 
to the glacier. 
We left the North Cape steamer at Molde, a day’s sail short 
of Bergen, and then started on a three weeks inland trip to the 
celebrated Romsdal, with its great Romsdalshorn and Troll- 
tindern towering up to more than 5000 feet height, one on each 
side of the valley ; the Geiranger Fjord and Brixdal glacier ; 
up Sogne Fjord to Laerdalsoren and Borgund, up Jostedal to 
Nigaards Brae glacier, through Naero Fjord andNaerodal to Vik 
and Voering Fos, and then on to Odde, BuerBrae glacier, and 
Gorsvingane Pass, 3400 feet height above the sea. Then by the 
Hardanger Fjord to Bergen, and back to Newcastle. 
A special charm in this trip was the sight of the water¬ 
falls. Norway is truly called the country of fjords and 
waterfalls (Fos) ; the fjords with their grand and continually 
varied scenery, and the innumerable waterfalls of most 
charming variety, including a large number of great size. 
