Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa . ning corn land. Sept. 14.—We had a journey of fourteen English miles,from Nilsvallen to Glasseherg, and thence nearly sixteen toRansio, entirely through forests as before described, exhi-biting the burnt trunks of fir-trees upon a soil covered withRein-deer Moss. Near the dwellings of the peasants weobserved the first example we had ever seen of weepinguspens. As we now drew near the great Alpine barrier,between Sweden and Norway, vegetation began everywhereto diminish. Excepting the common Ranunculus, and theParnassia palustris (which
Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa . ning corn land. Sept. 14.—We had a journey of fourteen English miles,from Nilsvallen to Glasseherg, and thence nearly sixteen toRansio, entirely through forests as before described, exhi-biting the burnt trunks of fir-trees upon a soil covered withRein-deer Moss. Near the dwellings of the peasants weobserved the first example we had ever seen of weepinguspens. As we now drew near the great Alpine barrier,between Sweden and Norway, vegetation began everywhereto diminish. Excepting the common Ranunculus, and theParnassia palustris (which in morasses and upon the banks•of the river still lifted its pendent petals in full beauty), theplants were all out of flower. The leaf of the Birch-treewas beginning to fall. Just before we entered the little court (l) Mr. Cripps has noticed, in his Journal, the junction of a river with the Ljusna,between Nilsvallen and Ransio; which escaped the authors observation. We proceeded from Nilsvallen, a quarter of a Swedish mile, to Sveg, where we called. TO MALMAGEN, UPON THE NORWEGIAN ALPS. kQQ court belonging to the wretched inn at Ransiij, a glorious chap. of the Ran Sion was suddenly presented. This piece of water, through which flows the wholecurrent of the Ljusdal, is one of the finest lakes in Europe ;and it is far beyond any other, in the surprising combinationwhich it exhibits, of rural scenery with the sublimer objectsof Nature. Mountains, islands, bays, promontories, brokenshores, towering forests, hanging woods, sloping fields,cottages and farm-houses, with all the flood of waters,light, and life about it, make it, perhaps, the grandest andmost perfect association of the kind existing. The authormade such a sketch of its appearance as may afford a merememorial of its general character and the dispositionof the parts; but it was a prospect beyond his power ofdelineation, and required the pencil of an abler inn at Ransio was
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