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BATTLE-FIELD OF ANTS. 163
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Soudre Trondhjems Amt,
■20th June, 1855. K. ARNTZEN.
The Orkeclal continues beautiful to the end, and the
road passes over a fjeld into the Surrendal. The
weather was painfully hot to-day; and I was rather
surprised at seeing a lizard: one of the small olive-coloured
species that are so abundant on the field boundary walls
and dusty roads in Italy.
I passed over a battle-field hereabouts where
thousands of the slain (ants) were stretched in death, some
headless, some bereft of limbs, and others cut in half.
This is the third time in the course of my pedestrian
experience (the other two were in Switzerland and
Italy) that I have found about a hundred yards of the
road strewn with bodies, and fragments of bodies, of
ants. I suspect that they resemble human beings, even
in the matter of making great wars; for it is difficult
otherwise to account for such scenes, where the evidences
of violent death are so abundant and the victims have
not been eaten by their destroyers. In the Surrendal
there are terraces again; and as this valley has its outlet
farther south, in the fiord on which is Christiansand,
it affords evidence of the extent of the upheaval.
The people I have seen since leaving Trondhjem are
remarkable for their clear complexions, blue eyes, fine
square foreheads, and highly developed coronal region
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