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some degree of perpendicular lamination which
favours its fracture from below upwards.
My readers of ‘Through Norway with a
Knapsack’ will remember the Seven Sisters and their
tragic end. Of course we looked out for them,
but they were due at an inconvenient hour for
dissipated passengers who had been watching
Torghatten until 3 a.m. Nevertheless, on
July 18th we responded to the call of the captain,
and rose at 7 a.m. to see them. I was much
perplexed with their appearance. They had grown
much stouter than when I saw and sketched them
on my first visit—had become, in fact, quite
matronly; besides this, had turned completely round,
being now on the western instead of the eastern
side of our route, and had drifted from the shore
and floated out to sea. About ten miles farther
on, we found seven more sisters, whose authenticity
was affirmed by the mate, and at about noon a
third family group appeared, which, when the
captain and mate had gone “forward,” the man
at the wheel stoutly maintained to be the genuine
ladies. These were not the only groups that might
have been put forward as claimants. The family
has increased since my last visit to seven times
seven sisters, and all these bear some resemblance
to the original sisters, but neither are the identical
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