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26 THROUGH NORWAY WITII A KNAPSACK.
earthenware, hardware, drapery, and haberdashery. I
was shown to a wooden room in which was a wooden
box with a bed in it, and other wooden objects; and
had a satisfactory supper of trout, with potatoes, ale,
and good brown bread; a comfortable clean bed,
without fleas, and with sheets of wholesome rough unbleached
linen. In the morning I had breakfast of strong coffee,
bread, cheese, butter, and fresh-water herrings from
the Miosen, pickled with oil like sardines; paying
two-and-a-half marks, or 2s. 3d., for all: the bottle of ale
cost 3d., the rest 2s.
Steamed up the Miosen Lake in a boat belonging to
the clever Englishmen, or rather Scotchmen, who made
the railway. The Miosen is a long narrow lake not
unlike our Windermere, but on a larger scale; it being
some seventy miles in length. The mountains that
form its basin rise to a height of about 2,000 feet at
their visible summits; their form is not remarkable,
but their sides, sloping down to the lake, are covered
with rich emerald verdure, rivalling, if not excelling,
our own green fields, and even those of Ireland. These
slopes are backed by fine woods of birch and mountain
ash, and dotted about them are the wooden farmhouses.
Altogether the Miosen is a beautiful lake, but not
exciting raptures. About half way on the lake is the
site of the ancient town of Stör Hammer—stör
signifying large, and hammer the same as our ham or
hamlet. The ruins of its old cathedral remain, and
near it, or I believe including it, is the farm of George
Bidder, once the famous calculating boy, and now one
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