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- CHAPTER I. Contrasts — Development of Norwegian tourist traffic — Passengers on the ‘Argo,’ and their tub of introduction — Whales — The Norwegian coast — Stavanger — Glacier vestiges in the High Street — Bergen — Indoor ivy — A Church of England Service conducted in the spirit of Primitive Christianity — Northward Ho! — Aalesund — Christiansund — Delay and disappointment — Trondhjem — Northern luxury — The Cathedral — The Falls of the Nid — A terraced valley — Prosperous farmers — The “Störhaus”— Glacial origin of the terraces.
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THROUGH NORWAY WITH LADIES.
CHAPTER I.
Contrasts — Development of Norwegian tourist traffic — Passengers
on the ‘Argo,’ and their tub of introduction — Whales — The
Norwegian coast — Stavanger — Glacier vestiges in the High
Street — Bergen — Indoor ivy — A Church of England Service
conducted in the spirit of Primitive Christianity — Northward Ho!
— Aalesund — Christiansund — Delay and disappointment —
Trondhjem — Northern luxury — The Cathedral — The Falls of the Nid
— A terraced valley — Prosperous farmers — The “Störhaus”—
Glacial origin of the terraces.
July 11th. — Reach Stavanger, after a singularly
calm and waveless passage of just forty hours from
Hull, by the Wilson liner ‘Argo.’
The contrast between the smooth water of this,
and the rough sea of my first passage, described in
‘Through Norway with a Knapsack,’ was not
greater than the difference between my own
position, intent, and prospects on the two occasions.
In the first case I was a careless, irresponsible
bachelor, travelling alone, with only a pocketful
of luggage in a little wicker knapsack; now I am
a grizzly-bearded paterfamilias with heavy
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