Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - 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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who had travelled in Switzerland, to recant their
scepticism concerning what I had stated respecting
the great superiority of Scandinavian to Alpine
waterfalls.
This walk also afforded an introduction to
another of the characteristic physical features of
Norway—the terraced valleys. The valley of the
Nid, like all the greater valleys of this region, is
a gigantic staircase of two or three, or more, up
to a dozen steps, the steps varying from eight
or ten up to about a hundred feet high, and
with all breadths, from half a yard to a mile or
two. The top of each of these steps, that is, of
the terraces, in this part of this valley are
beautifully flat, ready-made croquet lawns if merely
rolled and mowed. They are very fertile and
well cultivated.
The largest and richest farms I have seen in
Norway are hereabouts. Some of the farmers
that we saw in the course of our walk were more
like English country squires than Norwegian
bonders. One, wearing white corduroys, blue coat
with gilt buttons, topboots of the old school, and
immaculate white Woodstock gloves, and mounted
on a splendid hack that could carry a sixteen-stone
rider over an old-fashioned five-barred gate, was
especially noticeable and noticed. We had some
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