Norway and its glaciers, visited in 1851 : followed by journals of excursions in the high Alps of Dauphné, Berne and Savoy . eople, is here in the highest perfection. Scarcelya house exists in Throndhjem which has not its windowsliterally filled with flowering plants, tended by the owners;and so prevalent is this taste, that on all my subsequentjourneys in steamboats, we were rarely without packagesof flowers in pots, undergoing transport from one portto another. The view over the fiord is varied and pictur-esque. The hills, though not densely wooded, are by nomeans bare, and though I believe
Norway and its glaciers, visited in 1851 : followed by journals of excursions in the high Alps of Dauphné, Berne and Savoy . eople, is here in the highest perfection. Scarcelya house exists in Throndhjem which has not its windowsliterally filled with flowering plants, tended by the owners;and so prevalent is this taste, that on all my subsequentjourneys in steamboats, we were rarely without packagesof flowers in pots, undergoing transport from one portto another. The view over the fiord is varied and pictur-esque. The hills, though not densely wooded, are by nomeans bare, and though I believe some distant hills weresnow-covered when I saw them, yet probably no elevationsof 3000 feet are visible from the shore at character once again resembles that of our ScottishHighlands, where the sea so frequently flows into the landbetween the hills, forming inlets which, in proportion tothe size of the country, are as long and narrow as thefiords of Norway. That of Throndhjem extends thirty-fiveEnglish miles before it reaches the ocean to the westward,and it runs inland to the north-east at least as
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