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(1877) [MARC] Author: W. Mattieu Williams
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sake, irrespective of its usefulness as a highway
between Christiania and the Hardanger, as well
as to and from the grand region we have just
traversed.

Like the Dovrefjeld, it is covered with the debris
of dying glaciers, but the blocks here are much,
larger. The plateau of this fjeld is not nearly so
extensive as the Dovrefjeld ; and thus the slopes of
the surrounding mountains, besides being steeper,
pour down more directly upon it, and have left
their deposits accordingly. Long ridges rise
immediately from it not far from the road, and some
remarkably fine specimens of perched blocks are
to be seen in driving over it. Many of these,
nearly as large as saeter huts, are visually
projected against the sky, and appear so delicately
poised that one might suppose that a gale of wind
would topple them down. But many a yelling
hurricane has screamed across these ridges since
they were left behind by the melting ice, and
there they still remain upon their pedestals,
defying all the storms that yet may blow daring the
next ten thousand years; at the end of which
period the earth’s orbit will have made another
half turn, and then we shall be nearest to the sun
at the midsummer of our northern hemisphere,
and the earth will travel over its half circuit most

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