The Argosy . salworld. No sooner hadthe melancholy proces-sion passed out of sight,its effect yet full upon themind, than the captainbeckoned me to the otherside of the ship, overwhich he was leaningwith what looked verymuch like an eye to abargain. At the foot of the lad-der was a boat filled withsplendid lobsters, and theprice asked was fourpenceapiece: the orthodoxcharge for a good lobsterin Norway. Not a fewof them quickly changedhands. Indeed, from Bergen to Throndhjem we half lived upon lobsters ; but from thenceto the North Cape we saw them not. Salmon in abundance anddaily; but the Nor
The Argosy . salworld. No sooner hadthe melancholy proces-sion passed out of sight,its effect yet full upon themind, than the captainbeckoned me to the otherside of the ship, overwhich he was leaningwith what looked verymuch like an eye to abargain. At the foot of the lad-der was a boat filled withsplendid lobsters, and theprice asked was fourpenceapiece: the orthodoxcharge for a good lobsterin Norway. Not a fewof them quickly changedhands. Indeed, from Bergen to Throndhjem we half lived upon lobsters ; but from thenceto the North Cape we saw them not. Salmon in abundance anddaily; but the Norwegian salmon lacks the flavour of the a fine Severn fish were put before a Norwegian, I am not surethat he would know what to call it. It is generally so where natureis very abundant in her supplies; as, for instance, where peachesand apricots grow thickest in the orchards of France, and are theleast luscious of their species. m # Leaving Christiansund, its melancholy but interesting associations,. Interior, looking Eastward. 54 About Noruay. we steamed towards Throndhjem. The journey was interesting at every it To the S. W. of Christiansund is the Island of Averoen, and in a mountain overlooking the village of Braemnaes is a cavern said to be the largest known cave in Norway, the opening of which is 40 wide, and the interior 2So feet high. We were continually steering about the islands; now stopping at some small station, and taking in bales and boxes that for the most part were sent off in s from the shore, and now steaming onwards again : but during the whole time very close to land and sometimes in very shallow lts. The air was warm, yet bracing and exhilarating; full of thatlightness which accompanies a rarified atmosphere, and forbids theindulgence of melancholy, or what Dr. Johnson would have called1 the vapours. Let no one who wishes to indulge, like Harvey, inmorbid meditations, or to cherish a pessimists view of life, venture intothese latitudes. His moods
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