. Zigzag journeys in northwest lands. The Rhine to the Arctic . LAZARETTO. The scenery of Norway is unlike any other in the world. Takethe map and scan the western coast. It looks like a piece of lace-work, so numerous are the inlets or fiords. These fiords are many of them surrounded by headlands as highas mountain walls. They are little havens, with calm water of won-drous beauty and with walls that seem to reach to the sky. On alevel spot in the mountainous formation, a hamlet or a little church issometimes seen, one of the most picturesque objects with its settingin the world. 300 ZIGZAG J
. Zigzag journeys in northwest lands. The Rhine to the Arctic . LAZARETTO. The scenery of Norway is unlike any other in the world. Takethe map and scan the western coast. It looks like a piece of lace-work, so numerous are the inlets or fiords. These fiords are many of them surrounded by headlands as highas mountain walls. They are little havens, with calm water of won-drous beauty and with walls that seem to reach to the sky. On alevel spot in the mountainous formation, a hamlet or a little church issometimes seen, one of the most picturesque objects with its settingin the world. 300 ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN NORTHERN LANDS. [The artist can give one a better view of these fiords than anydescription, and he has faithfully done it here.]. THE NAERO FIORD. The mountains and valleys of Norway are unlike any finds them as winter leaves them. Great hills are worn intocones by the snow and ice. The cataracts are numerous and won-derful. The water scenery has no equal for romantic beauty andwildness. A twelve hours farther sail brought us to Christiania. It issituated in a lovely valley on the northern side of Christiania Fiord. NORWAY. 3OI It has a population of about eighty thousand. Here are the RoyalPalace and University. All of the cities of the North have great schools and University at Christiania has nearly a thousand students, and alibrary of one hundred and fifty thousand books. The port is covered with ice during some four months in theyear. During the mild seasons some two thousand vessels yearlyenter the harbor. Olaf, the Saint, the King of Norroway, who preached the Gos-pel with his sword, is the hero of the western coast. I might relatemany wonderful stories of him, but I would advis
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