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population of about two thousand. The
following letter, which I wrote on the spot and posted
to England, describes the town and its chief
industries:
“I am writing this letter by the light of the
midnight sun, which has just made his last
appearance for the present season. Everybody is wide
awake, shops and offices are still open, and
business hours continue irregularly until about 2 a.m.
The sun has been continuously above the horizon
for more than two months, during which period
bedtime is at any time or no time, as may be
found convenient. The steam whistle of the screw
steam-packet omnibus, the ‘Haakon Adelstein,’ is
screaming for the third time, to finally warn the
wakeful population of Vadsö that she is about to
weigh anchor and depart by way of the North
Cape, Hammerfest, &c., to the south. I will go on
board and tell you what I see.
“A great salt-water channel, which, being
nearly land-locked by promontories and the island
of Vadsö, appears like a salt-water lake. The
boundaries are humpy rocks, which once were
mountains of similar geological formation to those
in Wales between Snowdon and Bangor; but here
they have been planed down to their present
hogback shape by huge glaciers that formerly swept
over them.
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