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THE CHRISTIANIA EIORD.
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valuable study of the characteristics of evening and
morning lio-ht.
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We all linger on deck long after midnight, then one
by one descend, myself the last of the passengers. I
have scarcely reached the cabin floor, when I hear the
mate call to the captain to look over the starboard bow
at a ship on fire. Of course I hasten upon deck again,
and look over the starboard bow forthwith. We soon
perceive that it is not a ship on fire, but the moon,
reddened by the veil of misty cloud, rising behind a
ship on the horizon, and looking like a dull lurid
flame over the deck and between the masts and sails.
It is the half-moon, of huge apparent size, rising
point upwards out of the eastern leaden-gray part of
the sea. She has a dull, scowling visage, as though
angry with the sun for cheating her of her nocturnal
supremacy. The form of the moon is curiously
distorted by the unequally refractive power of the strata
of air through which her different parts are seen, the
lower limb being unusually lifted and flattened upwards,
as though it were soft, and had been dubbed against the
hard metallic horizon.
We wake tip in the Christiania Fiord next morning,
which hereabouts is studded with islands, and bounded
by a gray rocky coast that grows more fertile and
beautiful as we approach the city. In the immediate
neighbourhood of Christiania the scenery of the fiord
has a varied and bright summer aspect of much beauty,
such as an Englishman is little prepared to find in the
latitude of 60° north. I had written it down the Como
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