. Letters from high latitudes : being some account of a voyage in 1856 in the schonner yacht "Foam" to Iceland . the teeth of a saw, and as on a cloudy day, which happensabout seven times a week, you see nothing but the line oftheir dark roots,—the unfortunate mariner, who goes pokingabout for the narrow passage which is to lead him betweenthe islands,—at the back of one of which a pilot is waitingfor him,—will, in all probability, have already placed hisvessel in a position to render that functionarys furtherattendance a work of supererogation. At least, I know it «/ ( Ml mmamaiimmn iiiii. VI
. Letters from high latitudes : being some account of a voyage in 1856 in the schonner yacht "Foam" to Iceland . the teeth of a saw, and as on a cloudy day, which happensabout seven times a week, you see nothing but the line oftheir dark roots,—the unfortunate mariner, who goes pokingabout for the narrow passage which is to lead him betweenthe islands,—at the back of one of which a pilot is waitingfor him,—will, in all probability, have already placed hisvessel in a position to render that functionarys furtherattendance a work of supererogation. At least, I know it «/ ( Ml mmamaiimmn iiiii. VIII. ] HAMMERFEST. 139 was as much surprise as pleasure that I experienced, when,after having with many misgivings ventured to shp 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, se
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