Feb., 1891. a visit to the north cape and Norway. 
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A VISIT TO THE NORTH CAPE AND NORWAY, 
ILLUSTRATED BY A SERIES OF 150 LANTERN 
SLIDES.* 
BY C. PUMPHREY AND W. P. MARSHALL. 
In this visit to Norway, Bergen (the capital), was first 
stopped at; and we then proceeded northwards by one of 
the special North Cape tourist steamers, the Olaf Kyrre, 
stopping on the way at many places of interest, staying a 
night at Trondhjem, the ancient capital of Norway, and 
finally landing at the North Cape to see the Midnight Sun 
from the summit of the rock. We then returned southwards, 
visiting several other places on the way back, and left the 
steamer at Molde, one day’s sail short of Bergen ; and from 
there took an inland trip of three weeks to visit some of the 
beautiful and grand scenery of the Norwegian “fjords” or 
creeks, the “dais” or valleys, the “ vands ” or lakes, the 
“ fos ” or waterfalls, and the “ braes ” or glaciers. 
The whole distance from here to the North Cape is about 
2,000 miles, and the time away from home was six weeks, of 
which a fortnight was taken in the trip from Bergen to the 
North Cape and back. The sea passage of about 400 miles from 
Newcastle to Bergen took one day and two nights ; and in the 
course of the steamer to the North Cape and back, there were 
visited on the way, either in going or returning, Molde and 
Trondhjem, the Torghatten Island Rock, the Svartisen 
Glacier, the Lofoden Islands, Tromsoe, where a Lapp 
encampment was seen; the beautiful Lyngen Fjord, Hammer- 
fest, the most northern town in the world, being in 70° 
north latitude ; and the Svaerliolt Bird-rock. 
On the 6th July the North Cape was reached, which is 
only 19°, or about 1,800 miles distant from the North Pole, 
At the Svartisen Glacier, the Arctic circle was passed, and 
whilst we were within the circle the sun remained continuously 
above the horizon for six days and five nights, and we were 
so fortunate as to be able to see it at midnight on four of 
those nights. At the North Cape the sun never sets for as 
long as two months and a half in the summer, but then on 
the other hand it is never seen for two months and a half in 
the winter. 
The inland excursion from Molde round to Bergen was 
first up the celebrated Romsdal Valley, thirty miles in length, 
and back again, passing between the great Romsdalshorn 
*Read before the Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical 
Society, 18th March, 1890. 
