- Project Runeberg -  Through Norway with a Knapsack /
325

(1859) [MARC] Author: W. Mattieu Williams
Table of Contents / Innehåll | << Previous | Next >>
  Project Runeberg | Catalog | Recent Changes | Donate | Comments? |   

Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - Chapter XVIII

scanned image

<< prev. page << föreg. sida <<     >> nästa sida >> next page >>


Below is the raw OCR text from the above scanned image. Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan. Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!

This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.

FROM DRAMMEN TO CHRISTIANIA.

325

The scenery is very beautiful all the way between
Drammen and Christiania. It has a smiling, home-like,
English character. The wild mountains and the dreary
Ijelds, the snow-peaks and glaciers, bogs, boulders,
torrents, and cascades, the vanishing foot-tracks and
barriers of gray precipice, all seemed now to belong to a
distant land and a past age of dreamy remembrance;
while this common highway passing between rich fields,
skirting small lakes with water-lilies on their surface,
and crossing tranquil rivers that have bending willows
overhanging from their grassy banks, was like the way
home from some friend’s house in the country, and set
me longing for my books, my easy chair, some music,
a clean collar, and civilization. These feelings were
heightened as I approached Christiania, and passed
numerous villas of considerable beauty; at one of the
finest of which there was a grand party, with
gaily-dressed ladies and gentlemen promenading on a terrace
that overlooked an Italian garden with flower vases,
statues, and fountains, all enlivened by the music of an
excellent band.

Christiania appeared extravagantly gay and
Parislike: there were pleasure-boats sailing on the fiord in
the neighbourhood of Oscar’s Hall, the king’s summer
palace on the water-side; the Klinkenberg seemed
filled with visitors; there was a grand concert in
another place, the " Lust-salle;" the Walhalla Theatre
was open, and there had been a performance there last
night (Sunday); and everybody seemed to be brilliantly
dressed and keeping holiday. Whether this was attri-

<< prev. page << föreg. sida <<     >> nästa sida >> next page >>


Project Runeberg, Sun Dec 10 12:58:37 2023 (aronsson) (download) << Previous Next >>
https://runeberg.org/knapsack/0355.html

Valid HTML 4.0! All our files are DRM-free