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be most enjoyable; it would combine the
expression due to the intellect and taste of the
performer, with the just intonation of a high-class
street organ.
We reach Lekö about midnight. The sun is
down, but the daylight remains. I recognize my
old acquaintance, Torghatten, the perforated insular
mountain, by its shape when more than twenty miles
ahead. At this distance it really appears like a
broad-rimmed, round-topped hat, floating on the
sea, but loses this shape on near approach. We
commence our Arctic irregularities by sitting up
until we reach it at 2 a.m. We see clearly through
the perforation as we pass its eastern side.
The total height of this insular rock is 824 feet.
The tunnel is 530 feet long, 66 feet high from
floor to roof at its eastern entrance, 250 feet high
at its western entrance, and about 200 feet in the
middle. This curious tunnel or perforation slopes
downward from east to west, and consequently is
far better seen from the west than the east side,
but the packet usually passes on the east, and
thus the height of the opening is cut short by
the visual covering of the farther end by the
nearer floor.
I was told by a Norwegian gentleman that a
geological committee of the Christiania University
examined this tunnel, and confirmed my suggestion
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