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(1859) [MARC] Author: W. Mattieu Williams
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312 THROUGH NORWAY WITII A KNAPSACK.

tourists stood, I was congratulated by them all on my
escape; but did not quite understand the meaning of
these earnest congratulations. One of them, an
Anglo-Portuguese South-American merchant, explained in
English that, seeing me halting in that terrible
situation (by the tree before mentioned), they concluded
that I had got so far and was unable to advance or
retreat, and were under the impression that the
accident of their arrival with the guide had been the means
of saving my life. They were rather disappointed
when 1 told them that I was in no danger whatever,
and had no idea of danger; that I could have retreated
with perfect ease, but should not have ventured forward
had not their guide, by his example, demonstrated the
possibility of so doing, which otherwise was by no
means evident. They had really been terrified, and
when, in order to convince them that there was no
danger, I proposed to recross with them, the Portuguese
exclaimed that he would not do so for a vast amount;
and all the rest concurred. I can easily understand
that, viewed from this position, where the ledges are
quite invisible, and both the height above and depth
below, fairly seen, it must be a somewhat thrilling sight
to witness the crossing of the Marie Stige—far more
so than to do it.

This platform of rock affords by far the best view of
the fall, and those who come from below have no
occasion to cross the Marie Stige, except for its own sake.
The quantity of falling water is much greater than at
the Voring Foss, but the height docs not appear to me

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