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WILD NOEWAY. 
and whatever their geological history may have been,, 
it was obvious that they formed a regular set of trout- 
traps : and, ere one had finished the last, the first was 
ready for a second time of asking. 
So intense was the sun-glare and the midday heat,, 
that fishing was only practicable early and late. Life 
in Telemark thus divided itself as follows :—At some 
early hour, according as I awoke, I turned out, and 
after a dip in the home-pool, continued fishing till the 
sun got on the water, about half-past seven. Then 
came frokost, a simple affair, commencing with a long 
pull of milk, followed by fried trout, eggs, fladbrod, and 
delicious coffee. The heat of the day was spent either 
on the fjelds above, or collecting some of the brilliant 
insects that abounded in the flowery brses and sunny 
woodland glades of our valley. Many of the strong¬ 
flying fritillaries, Apollos, etc., could indeed only be 
captured during the noontide heat, which meant warm 
work. Then, lying on a mossy bank carpeted with 
wildflowers, I could count a dozen species almost within 
reach of the net. Each tall head of scabious or purple 
knapweed was surmounted by the green and silver 
lustre of Argynnis paphia , or by the burnished orange 
of the high-brown, pearl-bordered, Niobe, or Queen of 
Spain fritillaries. There were sombre ringlets and 
tortoiseshell contrasting with the dazzling radiance of 
the Golden-copper ( Virgaurese) : heaths and skippers 
abounded, and the dark Argus flitted in the shade 
while Apollos on soaring wing, and strange ghost-like 
Cratsegi swept across the open meadows.* Dragon-flies 
and grasshoppers also abounded. 
* A note on the birds observed in Telemark may be inserted 
