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once recognized him as the original of many
familiar portraits in the flat.
We commenced the overland portion of our trip
on 10th August. The first part of the journey
from Trondhjem to Storen was by railway and
therefore done in a few hours. My conscience
smote me when I took the tickets, and recalled to
memory my former walk through the grand valley
of the Gula. It seemed a cruel desecration to
travel over such country by such means. I expected
the usual panorama of tunnels and cuttings, and
the maddening bobbing bo-peep of by-flying
telegraph posts, but was most enchantingly
disappointed, for here I rode, for the first time in
my life, by an utterly unvandalizing railway. I
hope, for his soul’s sake, that Mr. Ruskin will go
to Trondhjem in order that he may travel on this
line, and thereby become reconciled to engineers
and pardon them lovingly ere he dies.
It runs parallel and very near to the old carriole
road; the engine pulled us up and ran us down
the hills like a Norwegian pony; we followed
all the windings of the river, losing nothing by
either cuttings or tunnels; the engineering of
the line rather displaying than concealing the
natural grandeur of the scenery, especially in
the deep gorge of the Gula, where the rails
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