Stories of persons and places in Europe . red into a thousand snowyfragments that tumble along down a rugged slope and are tossed by everyledge into still greater confusion. Denser masses of spray arise and thesun shining on them makes glorious rainbows. Presently a great ledgebars the path and beats the foaming water into dust. But another fall offive hundred feet awaits it, and after passing that it spreads out into a mul-titude of little rills and disappears. • One of the most beautiful cascades in Norway is the Ringsdal foss— foss means force in Norse—in the Sor fjord. At its first leap th
Stories of persons and places in Europe . red into a thousand snowyfragments that tumble along down a rugged slope and are tossed by everyledge into still greater confusion. Denser masses of spray arise and thesun shining on them makes glorious rainbows. Presently a great ledgebars the path and beats the foaming water into dust. But another fall offive hundred feet awaits it, and after passing that it spreads out into a mul-titude of little rills and disappears. • One of the most beautiful cascades in Norway is the Ringsdal foss— foss means force in Norse—in the Sor fjord. At its first leap the heavy Nor id ay. 63 body of water plunges over a precipiceeight hundred feet high, and then,angry and turbulent, leaps to anotherledge from which it is tossed morefrantic than ever. Thicker andheavier clouds of spray arise, areseized by the strong current of air andtossed into a hundred beautiful andfantastic shapes. At one moment itforms a spiral column, coiling and re-coiling upon itself,bounding forward andbackward, and up and. down, then breakinginto new shapes itfinally makes another plunge fromwhich it is driven into an utter des-peration of mist. A vast cloud arises Im-, 64 Persons and Places in Euroiie. above the stream and skims along the narrow gorge for a distance oabont two hundred yards, then meeting another fall the whole torrentvanishes in a cloud of spray. Fjelds.—Norway, though a mountainous country, has no mountainranges; it has a series of elevated table-lands from which rise numeroussudden peaks and boulders. The table-lands called fjelds, or fields,,because they look like broad, flat fields, rise one above another in terraceswhich are marked off in many places by marks of ancient sea-levels, asthough the land had risen gradually out of the ocean, one terrace at a people think that this has been the case, for it is found that the sur-face is now gradually rising a few inches every hundred years. Between the steeps and precipices are many
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