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silver forks and spoons for all the suite of thirty
or forty persons.
August loth.—Wretched weather, start late,
drive over the bleak fjeld in a drizzle of sleet. I
take this opportunity of noting that few countries
are subject to greater changes of climate than
Norway, and therefore that all descriptions of its
scenery should be accepted as subject to a
corresponding discount or premium. This should never
be forgotten when we find discrepancies in the
descriptions of the same scenery by different
travellers.
A certain author writes the following :
“ A little before reaching ‘ Ovne ’ or ‘Aune’
station there were some of the most magnificent
banks of pansies I ever beheld. Several patches
of above a hundred square yards were covered
with an unbroken carpet of these beautiful little
flowers ; the variety, richness, and harmony of
their colours were most exquisite ; they saturated
the atmosphere far around with a delicious aroma
which was almost intoxicating in its concentration
when I slept upon them for an hour or two : the
sunbeams poured upon me with a roasting heat,
the rooks were cawing above, and the river
rumbling below,” Ac.
We drove past the region of these banks yester-
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