Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa . erwisestruck by the appearance of Elstad, than as a continuation ofthat series of beautiful landscapes which we have already sooften described, in following the course of the Louven. Infact, the river here did not present itself with its usual effect;being, at this season, full of shallows and sand banks, which, by dividing TllONYEM TO CHRISTIANIA. 725 dividing its current into several separate streams, diminish its grandeur. The Church of Elstad, placed in a com-manding situation upon the eastern side of it, presents
Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa . erwisestruck by the appearance of Elstad, than as a continuation ofthat series of beautiful landscapes which we have already sooften described, in following the course of the Louven. Infact, the river here did not present itself with its usual effect;being, at this season, full of shallows and sand banks, which, by dividing TllONYEM TO CHRISTIANIA. 725 dividing its current into several separate streams, diminish its grandeur. The Church of Elstad, placed in a com-manding situation upon the eastern side of it, presents anobject highly picturesque, from whatever point of view it isregarded. In the style and materials of the architecture,these wooden churches remind one of Switzerland; and manycustoms in which the two countries seem to agree havebeen already noticed. There are many circumstances inwhich the features of the landscape are in both countriesthe same; but in Norway a finer effect is produced by theabrupter elevation of the mountains, the bolder character of. the precipices, and the varying features caused by a mixture of green pasture and cultivated fields, amidst towering forests and the most barren rocks. Mountains, with many a vol. v. 5 A precipice 726 TRONYEM TO CHRISTIANIA. chap, xviii. precipice and many a smiling settlement, amidst brokencliffs and rising woods, presented their innumerable varietiesof form, and colour, behind the Church of Elstad, as wewere engaged in making a hasty sketch of this building; oneof the most inadequate to represent the real scene, whichwe have yet ventured to introduce ; because wantingall the characteristic touches necessary to delineate everyrude and fantastic form, every brilliancy of light andcolour, the breadth and depth of shadow, the hoaryrocks and glittering heights, all that the mountainssheltering bosom shields, and ail the dread magnificence ofNature. Leaving Elstad, we had to climb one ot the mountainsthat surround the valley; and w
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