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4 THROUGH NORWAY WITII A KNAPSACK.
are stuffed tightly with moss or lichen. The roof is a
framework of heavy beams, covered with planks,
overlaid with sheets of birch-bark, called " naver." Moss
or peaty soil is spread upon these to a depth of several
inches. A rich vegetation is common uüon such roofs,
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and occasionally a goat may be seen grazing luxuriantly
upon the house-top. This is the usual roofing, but at
Christiansand tile roofs abound.
We sail again at about mid-day, and towards
midnight approach the mouth of the great estuary, which,
broken up by hundreds of islands and inlets, finally
closes at Christiania. It is midsummer eve, and many
fires are lighted on the hills, rendering it difficult to
distinguish from them the " Faerder," or farther
lighthouse, which marks the outer point of the Christiania
Fiord. But lighthouses are little needed on such a
night as this, when there is no darkness, though the day
has gone.
We are all on deck to-night, passengers and sailors,
leaning on the bulwarks and looking towards the North.
It is eleven o’clock, and the sun has but lately set. We
can see exactly where he is below that line of distant
hills upon the shore. They were dull gray two hours
ago, but now they have a tint of deepest purple, and
their outlines are wondrously sharp. There is a thin
film—a mere transparent veil of halo-cloud out there,
the kind of cloud called cirro-stratus—a sheet of what
would be thin fog but that it is some two or three miles
high. The colours of the sunset cling to this, and the
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sun below the horizon throws a clear and definite light
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