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in the way, and the limits of the snow-line have to he
passed, and but seldom made any serious blunder. It
therefore wounded my pride most terribly to be almost
forced to the conclusion that I had gone about ten
miles too far east; for at such a distance from the
proper track there are marked upon the map two lakes,
connected by a stream just corresponding to that with
the soft bottom that I had waded through; the
easternmost of these lakes having an outlet running down a
narrow valley just in the direction of that I was
following ; this stream is tributary to another, winding
through a long valley, that looks dreary even 011 the
map, though it has one farm marked at its eastern end,
some ten miles farther, and beyond the limits of my
vision. This farm is called Skardvangen. My theory
now is, that the saeters at which I arrived so much
sooner than I expected, were not the Loordalen saeters
marked in my map, but some others there omitted;
that, therefore, I turned off too soon, and all the easting
I made to get round the lakes was so much additional
aberration.*
According to this, I was now, at five o’clock p.m.,
about as far from my destination as 1 supposed I was
when at the saeters at ten in the morning, with the
disadvantage of having no track to follow, and an
* This proved to he the fact, as I afterwards ascertained by
inspecting Miinck’s map, where every farm and saeter is marked, and
the configuration of the hills and valleys carefully given. I could
not have made the blunder if I had had that map. Mine was only a
road map—very good of its kind, but not sufficient for such solitary
mountain wanderings.
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