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THE TWIN FALLS OF THE SKIEGGEDAL.
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There is a sort of Stauhbach waterfall here, which
comes over a precipice nearly opposite the station. It
is called the Keel Foss, and is estimated in Murray’s
"Guide" at 2,000 feet high: if so, it must be the
highest fall in the world; but I think that half that
height is much nearer the truth.
I walked up this very singular and magnificent valle}’,
between its great walls of rock, and past the
curiously-shaped sugar-loaf mountain that stands like an obelisk,
and forms one of its most remarkable features, until 1
reached the upper end of the valley, which is closed in
by a pyramidal mountain, standing bolt upright in front
of the road, and apparently defying farther progress.
A zigzag road, which is an engineering triumph,
overcomes this obstacle; and from it magnificent views of
the valley and fiord are obtained. There are two very
fine cascades, which fall almost in front of this road,
and are well seen from it.
I started from Gudvangen at about six o’clock,
intending to stop at the next station, some two hours’
walk ahead; but passed it without being aware: I
only remember some dirty huts about the spot. At
about eleven o’clock I reached the next station, Vinge,
entered it, struck a light, and found a dirty man lying
in a dirty trough: not a raised box, as usual here, but
a wooden trough, lying on the ground. In another
trough, on the opposite side, was an equally dirty
woman; there were some children and other people
distributed about in similar troughs on the other parts
of the floor. The man made some surly answers to my
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