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ascending mile by mile tlie valley of the Elv, tlirice changing 
horses, but only once, at Dalen, nine hours after starting, 
getting anything more sustaining than coffee, and a queer, 
wafery, rolled up tube, which is one of the Norwegian rural 
equivalents for biscuits. At last, shortly before half-past ten, 
and within a few minutes of the time at which I had intimated 
my expectation to join our friends, we drove up to the doors 
of Jerkin, and were received with open arms and a good 
square meal by the overland party. I have a strong objection 
to working on Sunday, and a still stronger objection to 
causing others to do so ; on this occasion, for what I thought 
sufficient reason, I waived both of these objections. The 
Sabbatarian may rejoice in the fact that of all the wet days 
of a wet holiday this Sunday was far and away the wettest. 
Instead of the glorious views which we ought to have had 
over the range of the Rondane Mountains, which our route 
bounded on the north, we had only one or two half-hearted 
glimpses of the nearer peaks, late in the evening, when the 
rain thinned off a little. Our descent into Jerkin—I say 
descent, for though Jerkin lies at 3,140ft. above sea level, we 
had just crossed a ridge probably 500ft. higher—had been 
observed from the windows of the station while yet we were 
a mile or more away, and much was the speculation as to 
whether it was “ we, or not we.” Two fragments of circum¬ 
stantial evidence the upholders of the former theory had to 
go upon; firstly, I had telegraphed from Gothenburg, five 
hundred miles away, that we hoped to join them on that evening 
by about half-past ten ; secondly, that no sane person, who 
didn’t consider liis mission urgent, would be driving across the 
high fjeld after ten at night on such a day as it had been. 
(To be continued.) 
HISTORY OF THE COUNTY BOTANY OF WORCESTER. 
BY WM. MATHEWS, M.A. 
(Continued from page 187.) 
We must now return to the “ Pliytologist,” Vol. IV., 
Part 2, 1852. 
At page 715 we find an account of the proceedings of the 
Pliytologist Club, 25th September, 1852, at which the Presi¬ 
dent, Mr. Edward Newman, announced, inter alia, the follow¬ 
ing discoveries of plants :— 
