Norway and its glaciers, visited in 1851 : followed by journals of excursions in the high Alps of Dauphné, Berne and Savoy . road along its bank. Near Vosse-vangen the country is in some places densely wooded withpine, fir, and birch, which are exported in considerable quan-tity; in some places it has an open moorland character. Theapproach to Vossevangen is striking. It is an importantplace, forming the centre of a large district, whose inhabit-ants have a character of their own different from those of theHardanger on the one side, and the Sogne-fiord on the other,and less amiable than either
Norway and its glaciers, visited in 1851 : followed by journals of excursions in the high Alps of Dauphné, Berne and Savoy . road along its bank. Near Vosse-vangen the country is in some places densely wooded withpine, fir, and birch, which are exported in considerable quan-tity; in some places it has an open moorland character. Theapproach to Vossevangen is striking. It is an importantplace, forming the centre of a large district, whose inhabit-ants have a character of their own different from those of theHardanger on the one side, and the Sogne-fiord on the other,and less amiable than either. I had been recommendedto try Voss, as a better climate than Bergen for seeing theeclipse, but it appeared that I should not have gainedmuch. The inn at Vossevangen was not so good as its im-portant position led me to expect, and the neighbourhood 142 THE HARDANGEH-FIORD. was also less picturesque than it had been represented tome. It being of great importance to me to gain a day, Iresolved to proceed in the afternoon two stages towardsGudvangen, to Vinje, although assured that it was next toimpossible to sleep THE FJ^ERLANPS-FTORB. CHAPTER VII. THE 80GNE- FIORD. VINJE TO GUDVANGEN—THE NARC3-FI0RD—SINGULAR AND WILD SCENERY—LEKANGERTHE SYSTRAND—FJ^RLANDS-FIORD AND ITS GLACIERS — REACH STOLUM — THESUPHELLE GLACIER DESCRIBED—ITS REMARKABLY LOW LEVEL—RETURN TO LEKAN-GER—STANDING STONES OF NARGLA—SOGNDAL— ANCIENT MORAINE—GEOLOGY ANDFINE SCENERY—SOLVORN ON THE LYSTER FIORD—RONNEID—ARRIVE AT JUSTEDAL. We were now on the highway from Bergen to drive from Vossevangen to Vinje was increasinglybeautiful. At first we followed the base of extremely bare,bleak hills, part of the chain between Vossevangen andBergen, on which the snow lay in great patches in the be-ginning of August, at what seemed to me a very low level. 144 THE SOGNE-FIORD. At Tvinde, the first stage, is a very fine waterfall, and fromhence to Vinje the scenery was real
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