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PREFACE.

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The title of this volume indicates its contents with
sufficient accuracy, and therefore I have very little to
say in the way of preface. I walked, or rather climbed,
through Norway, kept a diary of the details of all my
doings and seeings, besides jotting down some of the
many thoughts thereby suggested; and the following
pages contain a transcript of the principal part of that
diary.

Such a work, of course, can have no pretensions to
learned research or elaborate literary structure; it is
simply a narrative of what I saw and experienced, with
a few of the reflections that occurred to me. The
narrative of such tour would not be faithful or
complete if some account of these mental wanderings were
not included, for the solitary pedestrian finds
companionship in thought, the succession of objects in his
path being sufficiently slow to give time for reflection

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