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(1859) [MARC] Author: W. Mattieu Williams
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VALLEY OF THE JUSTEDAL.

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track is specially needed. Over a rolling moor, or up
a definite valley, one may steer by compass; but here I
arrived at the head of a valley terminating in three
peaks, the centre one being just in the direction which,
according to the map, I ought to take: only a mountain
pass is never over a peak, but always by the lowest
practicable way in the hollow between two peaks.
Which, then, must I take; the hollow to the right
or that to the left ? The configuration of the hills not
being given accurately on my map, I had therefore to
go by guess. It was evident that these courses led
to very different places ; to valleys branching off in
very different directions. They all led upwards to the
great snow deserts of the Justedal and Nord Fiord, or to
the dreary Sogne Fjeld, and downwards again to rocky
solitudes filled with the ruins that the recently receded
glaciers have left behind. My destination was the
Justedal, the only one of these valleys that is inhabited;
but the upper end of this is as desolate as the rest,
the first farmhouse being so far down that I could only
expect to reach it at the end of my day’s walk. It
was quite possible, therefore, that I might take the wrong
valley, and only detect my error after some hours’ walk;
thus having to spend another night in a region still
wilder than that where I had strayed aside before.

I ascended one of the peaks in hopes of making a
survey that would aid me, but found that the apparent
summit is surmounted by another far above and away,
and that probably by another, and perhaps another still;
as is so often found to be the case in making such

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