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Torghatten — Dimensions and origin of the tunnel — Fraudulent
claimants to the legendary estate of the Seven Sisters — Temporary
success of the impostors — Their final detection and the
reinstatement of the just heirs — Structure of the Seven Sisters and origin
of their family likeness — The Hestmand again — Bodö — A sea
beach, sea bottom, and great plain of surface “till” — Arctic shells
— The Lofodens — Varying limits of glaciation — Reasons for
believing that the ancient extension of Scandinavian glaciers has
been greatly overstated — How to see the Lofodens and obtain
bracing brain-rest — “Confidential Peak” Page 55
CHAPTER V.
Tromsö — Our first meeting with Laplanders — Sleeping arrangements
of fashionable visitors to the Arctic metropolis — The Hôtel du Nord
— American “smartness” — The progress of Tromsö — Dissipated
Laplanders — Arctic villas and luxuriant lawns — The difficulty
of distinguishing to-day from to-morrow in the Arctic regions
— Programme of the midnight sun — Shopping in Tromsö —
English goods cheaper than in London — The aristocracy and democracy
of Tromsö — The Lapp camp in the Tromsdal — Critical
examination of ladies’ dresses — Commercial transactions with the Lapp
women — Their political economy — Midnight cod-fishing — Victims
to the pursuit of knowledge — Fish rissoles and fish puddings —
Our menu at Tromsö 81
CHAPTER VI.
An exceptional moraine and glacier lake — Hammerfest — Consul
Robertson — The North Cape — Cod-fishing — Knivskjierodden,
the northernmost promontory of Europe — The Porsangerfjord —
A glacier farm — General glaciation of the extreme north —
Sverholtklubben and the Fuglebjerg — A wondrous colony of sea fowl
— Abundance of animal life in the Arctic Ocean — The northern
headlands of Europe — Vardö — Arctic market-gardens — The
northernmost fortress of the world — A moltebeer and eider-duck
preserve — Political interest of the Varangerfjord — Russia and
the Gulf Stream — A political interlude — The Vadsö whale fishery
— An interesting but unsavoury visit to the whale butchery 103
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