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mention this entry of mine; it will enable them
to make an interesting excursion without any
other guide, as there is no danger or difficulty in
ascending these glaciated hills. They are,
however, somewhat perplexing on account of their
mocking: summits.
You start for the highest visible summit, bent
upon surveying a panorama of the whole district.
You reach it at last, and then discover that
the actual summit is a mile farther ahead. You
traverse the hollow between and the slope
leading to this, then find another still beyond, and
another still. In this case, when the highest lump
is finally attained, it commands a fine
amphitheatre of snow peaks, stretching from north-west
to east and south-east. The Sognefjord s visible
at the bottom of a notch to the south, and the
sea to the westward, with some remarkable
flat-topped precipitous hills or escarpments on the west
horizon near the sea, displaying very effective
sweeping glaciation; where the glaciers probably
terminated by toppling over the precipice into the
sea, as at the North Cape and the other Arctic
headlands.
I descended on the south-east side down a series
of long snow slopes to Bjerkeland, and then
returned by road to Sande. I observed a curious
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