Norway and its glaciers, visited in 1851 : followed by journals of excursions in the high Alps of Dauphné, Berne and Savoy . stratus clouds near the suns disc clearingaway, it rose to 17°, 19^°, 20°, and finally 22°, about mid-night, or very little later—the suns disc being now free ofany distinguishable cloud, and the photometer standing onan insulated barrel on the deck, therefore almost free ofextraneous reflection. The glacier-clad mountains of theBergs-fiord were bathed in the horizontal ruddy light as westood across the open sea to touch at Hasvig, on the islandof Soro, which was our utm
Norway and its glaciers, visited in 1851 : followed by journals of excursions in the high Alps of Dauphné, Berne and Savoy . stratus clouds near the suns disc clearingaway, it rose to 17°, 19^°, 20°, and finally 22°, about mid-night, or very little later—the suns disc being now free ofany distinguishable cloud, and the photometer standing onan insulated barrel on the deck, therefore almost free ofextraneous reflection. The glacier-clad mountains of theBergs-fiord were bathed in the horizontal ruddy light as westood across the open sea to touch at Hasvig, on the islandof Soro, which was our utmost northern latitude. The Bergs-fiord mountains just mentioned form theseaward part of the peninsula of the Jokuls-field. Theprincipal glacier which descends from them was describedto me by a gentleman on board perfectly acquainted withthe locality, as one of the most remarkable, and, at thesame time, the most accessible on the coast. It reaches,he assured us, within a quarter of an hours walk of thesea, and there is a safe anchorage in the Bergs-fiord, beingalmost land-locked by the large island of Silden. This. Q o i</) D Ui X h- O (f) DCUJ O< o GLACIERS OF NUS-FIORD. 81 was exactly the sort of glacier I was anxious to visit, andI hoped that upon our return voyage the captain mighthave taken the inner passage, and given me an opportunityof landing at a far less expense of time than our visit tothe Pippertind glacier must have required; but I saw thatthere were objections, and 1 consequently lost this interest-ing sight. The sound, which extends from Silden Island towards theAlten-fiord, is called the Stjerno Sound, as it separates themainland from an island of that name. In our northernvoyage we passed through it in the night, and with astrong head wind; but on our return I was enabled toexamine closely the features of the snow-crowned most important glaciers succeeding those of the Bergs-fiord joccur in the Nus-fiord, a small inlet of this StjernoSoun
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