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hand the respective resources of the stations
before us, and especially by halting early, going
on no farther when we came upon a
comfortable station at 5 or 6 p.m., or anywhere
thereabouts. We thus usually halted at an empty
or nearly empty house, but had we gone on past
the average time at which tourists stop for the
night we should at this, the height of the tourist
season, have reached an occupied station late at
night, and then might have posted to another
and another, and so on until morning, before
finding room for so many. I forewarned my
pupils before starting of our liability to this, and
of the probable necessity of dividing into two or
more sections; but by making inquiries and by
thus halting early, we escaped any such separation
throughout the journey. In steering a large
party through Norway these contingencies must
always be kept in view, and due allowance made
in estimating the rate of progress.
August 14th.—The wild moorland fjeld
continues for above twenty miles beyond Dombaas,
and then skirts a long slope, at the bottom of
which are the long dreary lake, or rather lakes,
called the Lesjevand.
This has been described as a lake with two
outlets, and has been the theme of some discussion
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