Excerpt from The Fishing Girl: Translated From the Norwegian of Bjornstjerne Bjornson N the shore of inlets, which the herrings have for a long time made their resort, townships will spring up, if other conditions are favourable. Of such places, it is not only true to say they are cast up out of the sea, but from a distance they even look like wrecks and timber washed ashore by the waves, or like a group of arched boats, that the fishermen have drawn over them on a stormy night. Ou coming nearer, we see how the whole has ...
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Excerpt from The Fishing Girl: Translated From the Norwegian of Bjornstjerne Bjornson N the shore of inlets, which the herrings have for a long time made their resort, townships will spring up, if other conditions are favourable. Of such places, it is not only true to say they are cast up out of the sea, but from a distance they even look like wrecks and timber washed ashore by the waves, or like a group of arched boats, that the fishermen have drawn over them on a stormy night. Ou coming nearer, we see how the whole has been built at random: here a wreck stands in the middle of a. Thoroughfare there the town is broken up by infiowing waters, while the streets crawl and meander in and out. But one quality_ is common to all such places - there is shelter in the harbour for the largest vessels there they are snug as in a box - and therefore these inlets are much prized by ships, which, with their sails torn and gunwales battered, come drifting in from the Wild seas, seeking a breathing - place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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