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The first of these to which our attention was
directed (and such direction is real]}7 demanded, as
one might otherwise pass a score without seeing
them) was, as already stated, about 1500 feet high;
but in the course of the day we passed a number
of others still more curious, some of them 2000 or
3000 feet above the deep fjord, with a mountain
wilderness behind them, and the fearful precipice
in front. An incomprehensible track, a winding
staircase of giddying ledges, somewhere on the face
of the precipice, leads to a little boat-house on the
fjord, an invariable adjunct to these farms. This
in many cases is the only available means of
communication between these strange Robinson Crusoe
settlements and the outer world.
I tried to sketch one of them, as the reader
may see by the woodcut; but as my artistic
powers are limited to the production of very rude
diagrams, the reader will require to exercise his
imagination, by supposing the perpendicular
height from boat-house to farm-patch to be about
3000 feet, as was the case in this instance.*
I suspect that the majority, if not all of these,
like the coast farms farther north, are the beds of
* I wrote the above before seeing the drawing on the block. I then
found that Mr. Stanford had placed my rude sketch in the hands of an
able artist who has sailed on these fjords and knows the farms well.
On the basis of my rough sketch he has produced the admirable and
truthful picture forming the frontispiece.
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