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WATERFALLS AND ROCKS OF ROMSDAL. 183
were buried in threatening clouds; then came a storm
of rain and hail, without thunder, and the body of
the clouds dissolved, leaving only some ragged
fragments of white mist, which clung about the torrent
gulleys of the mountain sides, and then slowly melted
into sunshine. All the torrents and cascades were at
work, and doing their utmost. Every kind of waterfall
is here — from the rapids and roaring leaps of the
Rauma, which runs through the bottom of the valley,
to Staubbachs innumerable, Giessbachs, Reichenbachs,
twin Handecks—representatives, in fact, of every type
of waterfall, and rivals to the grandest of some of
them.
On the right side of the valley as I ascended, the
Romsdals Horn, a mountain of extraordinary steepness,
springs out of the valley up to a height of 4,000 feet,
like a monstrous shattered steeple; a labyrinth of
similar ragged cones surrounding it. On the left side a
mighty wall of rock rises directly from the road, till its
notched and rugged edge seems to scrape the blue sky.
This wall varies from one to two thousand feet in
height. In some parts of it great scars are visible,
where huge masses have scaled off and thundered
down; these fragments may be seen below, cumbering
the river-bed, and forcing its waters to roar and foam
through the alleys between them. The course of the
road has been turned to wind round such blocks ; and
in some places the blocks themselves have been blasted,
and the road cut fairly through them. Above these
scars an overhanging cornice may usually be seen;
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