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THE YOKING FOSS.
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zigzag path up this loads to a large rolling moor,
surmounted in the far distance by the snowy peak of the
Halling Joklen. The fall is somewhere hereabouts; a
mile or two from the commencement of this moor: but
it is not easy to find. I was told below that I should
find a gorge to the left, and a thin thread cascade visible
from a distance, and that immediately below this is the
Voring Foss; but that in spite of these indications it
is very difficult to find. This proved to be quite true,
and in order to save time I made for the small farm
of Höl, where, after consuming two large bowls of milk,
I engaged a little boy to conduct me to the Foss. Most
of the farmhouses have pictures of some kind; rude
prints, portraits of King Oscar and subjects from
Scripture history, prevail. At this establishment a great
work of high art is carefully hung upon the wall and
exhibited ostentatiously in the best available light: it
is Bradshaw’s Railway Map of England.
I saw the fall from two points: the first, a ledge of rock,
from which the lower part is visible; the second displays
nearly the whole of it. The torrent forming the fall
flows from the melting snows of the Hailing Joklen, and
traverses for some miles the moor just spoken o£ There
it sinks into a gully it has cut, to the depth of some 200
feet below the level of the moor; and thence it pitches
in a foaming mass down into a narrow gorge of fearful
depth. The place from which I first saw it was a
projecting piece of rock, not merely perpendicular, but
undermined, and positively overhanging this horribly
magnificent abyss. The rock is smoothed at the top,
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