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(1877) [MARC] Author: W. Mattieu Williams
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2G4 THROUGH NORWAY WITH LADIES.

The hills hereabouts are rich in ironstone. At
Orskog is a mine, belonging, we are told, to a
Mr. Savage, and communicating with the fjord by
a very steep tramway. The herring fishery is
evidently the staple industry hereabouts, as
indicated at all the stations where the packet stops.
Near to Hove we see two small whales, and our
encyclopaedic captain tells us that they sport here
in peace, and at the mouths of all these fjords,
being protected by law on account of their reputed
usefulness as sentinels on guard, that prevent the
herrings from migrating into the open sea during
the fishing season.

About a quarter of an hour past Hove, and on
the opposite side, Captain Dahl directed our
attention to a boat-house at the foot of a precipitous
rock, and then to some telescopic objects about
1500 feet above it. These were farm buildings, or
saeters, on a little patch of land, or flattened out
oasis, a verdant shelf above the rock. One moving
object was visible, a child, hut we could not
perceive whether it was free in its movements, or
tethered. The local practice of tethering children
to heavy boulders may appear somewdrat uncouth
to English mammas, but after seeing a few dozens
of the eagle-nest farms of this district, the most
conservative of womankind, Mrs. Gamp herself,
would admit its necessity.

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