This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...sat and worked. Along this we walked to reach the apartments appropriated to visitors, which, with the utter unselfishness of Norsk hospitality, seemed to be furnished in a style far exceeding that of the rest of the house. The fourth side of the square was open, save that in the middle of it stood the detached ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...sat and worked. Along this we walked to reach the apartments appropriated to visitors, which, with the utter unselfishness of Norsk hospitality, seemed to be furnished in a style far exceeding that of the rest of the house. The fourth side of the square was open, save that in the middle of it stood the detached storehouse common to all Norwegian dwellings in one form or another. Sometimes it is guest-chamber and storehouse all in one; sometimes it is a mere hovel; but without it a Norsk menage is evidently not thought complete. Behind the house is a small garden, the excellence of whose fruit we had ample opportunity of proving. Beautiful as the view had been by moonlight, it was, if possible, lovelier at morning, when the mists were curled about the hills, or rose, like steam from the fjord. After "breakfast we started to see the Ostud Foss. The walk from Vigor is a charming one, by a path along the hill side, some distance above the lake, that wound in and out along the promontories, so as to give ever-changing views of the dark water beneath us and the mountains beyond, set, as it were, in a frame-work of birch and pine. Thus viewed from the shore, from a position of some little elevation, the fjord is seen to the best advantage, and we thought that the Hardanger surpassed even the Sogne in the beauty of its scenery. The Foss would be thought a noble one, were it elsewhere than in Norway: in form it is extremely fine; there are in fact two falls--the upper one shoots from a projecting shelf of rock upon some crags below, whence the water tumbles anew down a series of terraces to the level of the valley. We climbed up, and stood under the upper fall, and pretty enough was the effect of the sunlight glancing through: but the body of water was too smal...
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