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THE NAMSEN FIORD.
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They are in rough wooden boxes, or coffins, very rudely
and disrespectfully heaped upon each other, warehouse
fashion; most of the boxes are broken, and the bodies
visible. They are in an excellent state of
preservation, the features being distinct, and the hair remaining
attached ; the skin is hard and dry to the touch. They
appear to have been simply frozen and desiccated, like
the bodies in the Morgue at St. Bernard.
At eleven o’clock p.m., in the still lingering daylight,
I went on board the Constitutone steam-packet, bound for
Hammerfest. AVe started at midnight; and 011
rising-next morning, I found that we were still in the
Trondhjem fiord. The scenery of this portion of the fiord
and the neighbouring coast is not very striking. In the
Namsen fiord, which we reached late in the day, the
scenery is much finer. Here the steamer winds about
through narrow channels, some less than a quarter of a
mile wide, and breaks into a succession of land-locked
basins, forming beautiful lakes, with richly wooded
banks, and hills, and islands. Several of these are very
much like Loch Katrine, but that the water is visibly
salt. The well-grown forests, the rich green fields,
and substantial farms, all under a scorching sun, are
totally at variance with one’s preconceived notions of
lat. —but two degrees from the arctic circle.
The sunset at night was most glorious. Nothing can
exceed, and no description give any idea of, the
protracted loveliness of these northern sunsets. The
glowing beauty lingers for hours—all the evening,
through midnight, and on to the next morning.
The veteran tourist, and the officer with the Epsom
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