Outing . a good mile walk lies be-tween the glacier and yourself, it is notlong before you are picking your wayover the loose stones and bowlders andacross the muddy streams at its last, crossing a greaf hill of bits ofice, stones and sand, which have beenamassed there for ages, and climbingupon a projecting ledge of ice, you areactually upon the Svartisen. A glori-ous picture meets the eye as you pauseto look around. The fjord winds in,through an almost imperceptible pas-sage among the tall white mountain-peaks, all the more beautiful becausetheir lower slopes are covered withgreen gr
Outing . a good mile walk lies be-tween the glacier and yourself, it is notlong before you are picking your wayover the loose stones and bowlders andacross the muddy streams at its last, crossing a greaf hill of bits ofice, stones and sand, which have beenamassed there for ages, and climbingupon a projecting ledge of ice, you areactually upon the Svartisen. A glori-ous picture meets the eye as you pauseto look around. The fjord winds in,through an almost imperceptible pas-sage among the tall white mountain-peaks, all the more beautiful becausetheir lower slopes are covered withgreen grass and low bushes, so muchwarmer is it ; and the water, as placid asa lake, reflects the mountain-tops andthe steamer lying out in the middle. Starting in huge blocks of ice at yourfeet, and sloping backward over twomountains, to a height of twelve hun-dred feet, lies the glacier, a dazzlingmass in the bright sunlight, full of crev-ices and caverns, formed by the crack-ing: and crowding- of the enormous. SVARTTSEN GLACIER. A WINTER DAY WITH THE DUCKS. 249 mass, and showing- the loveliest tints andshades of that deep blue color peculiarto ice-caverns. Another great beauty of the Svar-tisen glacier, besides its lovely position,and the satisfaction of being able tostand directly at the foot, and look to,or rather toward, the top, is the straight-ness of the line which it cuts throughthe green border of grass and bushes oneither side. In the glaciers of Switzer-land, framed in by rocky borders, thereis no such contrast of color, of the whiteand blue tints and the bright greensurroundings, as can be seen at theSvartisen. Numerous smaller glaciersformed on the neighboring mountain-peaks, join this great one, which meas-ures altogether thirty-five miles inlength, and ten miles in width. A small river flows from underneaththe glacier, at the foot; and by followingthis up, and clambering as best youmay over the crumbling and meltingsnow, you come to a small lake in theglacier itself, a
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