[Frost and fire : natural engines, tool-marks and chips : with sketches taken at home and abroad by a traveller] . from anything Iever saw before, and most enjoyable. In 1851, June 24, a fall near Trondhjem was sketched;on the 26th a careful sketch was made at Alstahong, at thefoot of the Seven Sisters. The high tops are weathered;lower hills ice-ground to a great height. On the 25th the Horseman was sketched for the second time ; on the 27th,Skaadstind ; on the 28th, Hindo ; on the 29th, Lapps atTromso ; on the 2d of July, Hammerfest, the most northerntown in the world ; was visited and sketc
[Frost and fire : natural engines, tool-marks and chips : with sketches taken at home and abroad by a traveller] . from anything Iever saw before, and most enjoyable. In 1851, June 24, a fall near Trondhjem was sketched;on the 26th a careful sketch was made at Alstahong, at thefoot of the Seven Sisters. The high tops are weathered;lower hills ice-ground to a great height. On the 25th the Horseman was sketched for the second time ; on the 27th,Skaadstind ; on the 28th, Hindo ; on the 29th, Lapps atTromso ; on the 2d of July, Hammerfest, the most northerntown in the world ; was visited and sketched. In August the same coast was seen for the third time. In 1852, June 8, the same fall on the Md was drawnagain ; on the 10th, Torghoetten; on the 11th, Skaadstindand Svolvcer (p. 137) ; on the 12th, Tromso at midnight. The sea was calm; the air still and warm; the sky to thesouth one bright luminous haze of purple and yellow; thehills and snow-wreaths glowed with that strange rosy fire ofwliich Alpine travellers rave when they have once seen thesun rise from some mountain bivouac. The level northern rays. 254 DENUDATION—FROST-MAliKS—LAND-ICE. threw long blue sliadows on the quiet sound, and the sleepy-chatter of a stray gull, or the dash of a big fish rolling after alittle one, were the only sounds that broke the silence. As thesun sailed along the northern horizon the shadows moved, butthe colours remained; sunset glow deepened till it reached itsdepth ; then rosy sunrise gradually faded into the bright lightof a summer day. Poets have hailed the smiling mornwhose rosy fingers ope the gates of day. Here the gates ofday are open for six weeks. In August the same voyage was made for the fifth time. The climate is charming. The air is balmy and the sePland-locked. The life of a Norwegian steamer is the lands-mans notion of a sailors occupation, which according to theold story is to sit and let the wind blow you along. Thereis no summer mist, or storm, or snow, or ice, on
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