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SOURCES OE THE STORELV.
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opposite side of the pass. The track on this side was well
marked by occasional heaps of stones. I always regard
it as a matter of imperative duty to contribute to such
heaps, by adding a stone to every one I pass: they are
almost necessary on this side, for in ascending it would be
very easy to miss the particular notch through which I
had passed, and by taking the wrong one, to wander
aside to the Stiggevand, or to other blind valleys
leading to the upper desolation of ice and snow. A walk
under one of the overhanging cornices of ice must be
very dangerous, as masses are continually detaching
from them.
I walked on over a wide fjelcl of glacier moraine
leading at last to the outlet of the Stiggevand; a torrent
of respectable dimensions which, fed by a succession of
glaciers, grows to a river * as it flows down the Justedal.
At the point where the stony fjelcl narrows and
descends to form the head of this valley, the torrent makes
a succession of falls over walls of piled-up boulders.
From this point a considerable length of the valley is
visible, and a few miles farther down I saw three men
and a horse reposing by the river-side; I found on
approaching that the men had been taking their dinner
and siesta. I followed their example, to the extent of
eating some fragments of fladbröd I had brought in my
pocket, but could not indulge in the luxury of a sleep
on account of the gnats and flies that swarmed about my
head, biting and stinging unmercifully; for within an
hour or so after leaving the Stiggevand and its
over-* The " Storelv," or large river.
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