Letters from high latitudes : being some account of a voyage, in 1856, in the schooner yacht "Foam" to Iceland, Jan Mayen, and Spitzbergen . o VIII.] HAMMERFEST. 139 was as much surprise as pleasure that I experienced, when,after having with many misgivings ventured to slip throughan opening in the monotonous barricade of mountains, we. found it was the right channel to our port. If the king ofall the Goths would only stick up a lighthouse here andthere along the edge of his Arctic seaboard, he would savemany an honest fellow a heart-ache. I must now finish this long letter. Hammerfest is scar
Letters from high latitudes : being some account of a voyage, in 1856, in the schooner yacht "Foam" to Iceland, Jan Mayen, and Spitzbergen . o VIII.] HAMMERFEST. 139 was as much surprise as pleasure that I experienced, when,after having with many misgivings ventured to slip throughan opening in the monotonous barricade of mountains, we. found it was the right channel to our port. If the king ofall the Goths would only stick up a lighthouse here andthere along the edge of his Arctic seaboard, he would savemany an honest fellow a heart-ache. I must now finish this long letter. Hammerfest is scarcely worthy of my wasting paper on I tell you that it is the most northerly town in Europe,I think I have mentioned its only remarkable stands on the edge of an enormous sheet of water, com-pletely landlocked by three islands, and consists of a con-gregation of wooden houses, plastered up against a steepmountain ; some of which being built on piles, give thenotion of the place having slipped down off the hill half-wayinto the sea. Its population is so and so,—its chief ex-ports this and that; for all which, see Mr. Murrays Hand-book, where you will find all such matters much moreclearly and correctly set down than I am likely to statethem. At all events, it produces milk, cream—not butter—salad, a
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