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fall I have seen in Norway, but not tlie grandest.
There is no difficulty in approaching it.
We proceeded then to another fall 011 the north
side of the lake. After about an hour and a half of
hard scrambling over rough boulders, with much rank
vegetation springing between them, we came to the foot
of the Tysse Strenger, as Jacob called them. They are
twin falls, pitching into a common chasm. They start
at some distance from each other, but in their long
journey downwards are so much spread out by the
resisting air, that they meet and mingle into one cloudy
mass of spray below. The lighter fragments of the
spray are carried far away from the body of the falls
in a diminishing cloud, extending at its extreme limits to
a distance of quite half a mile. This lias brought about
a curious result: the formation of a glacier of an entirely
abnormal character. Although so late in the year, and
the sun’s heat so strong, the gorge at the foot of the
cascade was bridged over with ice, under which the waters
flowed. This, though thus undermined, was so strong,
that I and Jacob walked over it with perfect safety: from
it, in fact, the best view of the falls may be obtained.
Like the ordinary glacier, it is crevassecl; though I am
not prepared to state that the crevasses are formed in a
similar manner. I was prevented by a broad blue
crevass—reminding me of the " bergschrund," or last
upper crevass of an Alpine snow-field—from walking
quite close to the falls; but was near enough to get well
wetted while standing 011 any part of this ice-bridge,
or waterfall glacier. The mode of its formation is
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