. Norway in 1848 and 1849: containing rambles among the fjelds and fjords of the central and western districts; and including remarks on its political, military, ecclesiastical, and social organization . it~4. LAND AT THE VILLAGE. 163 been recently surrounded. Unsatisfactory as necessa-rily are all mere descriptions of scenery, and imperfectas I feel my own sT^etches to be, however faithfulin the details, it will be perceived that IJliensvangpresents a landscape of no ordinary beauty. Gracefulin its outlines, and rich in its colouring, as a composi-tion it embraced all that can be imagined mos
. Norway in 1848 and 1849: containing rambles among the fjelds and fjords of the central and western districts; and including remarks on its political, military, ecclesiastical, and social organization . it~4. LAND AT THE VILLAGE. 163 been recently surrounded. Unsatisfactory as necessa-rily are all mere descriptions of scenery, and imperfectas I feel my own sT^etches to be, however faithfulin the details, it will be perceived that IJliensvangpresents a landscape of no ordinary beauty. Gracefulin its outlines, and rich in its colouring, as a composi-tion it embraced all that can be imagined most strikingand beautiful, — including mountain-ridge, waterfall,,green slopes, and wooded banks feathered down tothe blue waters of the fjord ; — with signs of life inhamlets, church and busy fishing-boat harmoniouslycombined. We had leisure to feast our eyes on this charmingprospect, as our conductor the giest-giver, instead oflanding us at the stairs leading to the scrivers house,pursued his course across the little bay of the fjordwhich formed the foreground of the picture, towards arude pier at its further extremity, which, by the num-ber of boats attached, seemed to be the general land-ing-plac
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