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COXE’s TRAVELS IN NORWAY. 37%
the Rands-Sion appearing like a broad river winding among the gloomy rocks; to the
north, hills piled upon hills, and mountains towering above mountains ; the {nowy Alps
of Norway clofing the majeftic view.
At the bottom of the defcent we croffed a lively rivulet called Ana, came to’a lake of
the fame name, and took up our lodgings at the village of Titerud, moft delightfully
fituated on the banks of a fmall but beautiful lake, forming the calmeft and lovelieft re-
treat I ever beheld. In this fequeftered {fpot, we found, befides the rooms appropriated
to the family, two neat bed-chambers for ourfelves, met with excellent tea and fugar
butter and cream, and {upped on a fine trout, weighing fix pounds, with which fith the
‘ lake abounds.
September 14. At Titerud, we quitted the mountains, and traverfed a gently waving
country, as fertile and pleafing as the diftrict of Ringerike, well cultivated and well peo-
pled, the roads winding through the fields like garden walks; we changed horfes at
Quickftand and Lund, and pafling through a lawn planted by the hand of nature, which
had the appearance of a park, reached the banks of the lake Miofs.
This lake extends from north to fouth, is eighty Englifh miles in circumference: and
is in general from twelve to eighteen in breadth. It is divided by a large peninfula and
contains one ifland ten miles in circumference, fertile in corn, pafture, and wood i and
fprinkled with feveral farm-houfes. :
The lake on the fide where we embarked is bounded by bleak hills, embrowned with
thick groves of pine and fir, whofe gloomy afpeét reminded me, that we were in the
62d degree of northern latitude, and continued on the oppofite fide with banks gently
rifing from the margin of the water, enriched with fields of corn and pafture, and re-
fembling the fertile diftricts of a more fouthern climate, the whole exhibiting a rugged
perfpective, and picturefque wildnefs on one fide, and on the other the cultivated beau-
ties of a milder atmofphere. \
We rowed between the ifland and the peninfula, on the extremity of which ftands
Nails, a {mall but neat village, and in two hours landed at Hammer, nowa gentleman’s
feat, formerly a large town containing near two thoufand inhabitants. The fite of this
once flourifhing place can now he only traced by fome parts of the old walls, heaps of
rubbifh, and the picturefque remains of a large cathedral, confifting of four Gothic
- arches, which ftand on an eminence overlooking the lake.
Having fatisfied our curiofity, we reimbarked, rowed about five miles to a {mall vil-
lage, landed, and walked to Giellum. Here we procured horfes, and continued our
journey through a lefs peopled diftrict thickly ftrewn with forefts, and ferried over the
Glomme, about as broad as the Thames at Henley. This river receives the Worme
which iffues from the lake Miofs. We had frequent views of the Glomme, which pre.
fented a broad furface, fometimes watering pleafant vallies, fometimes interrupted by
fand-banks, over which it frequently fhifts its courfe, fometimes winding between rocky
cliffs, and precipitating itfelf in frequent catara¢ts.
Being now in the fixty-fecond degree of northern latitude, and ina mountainous
country, we had already experienced the approach of winter.’ On the 14th of Septem
ber it {nowed; on the fifteenth was a fevere hoar-froft, and the furface of feveral ponds
and ftagnant waters were frozen to the thicknefs of half-a-crown. It was, however, °
clear and funny, lie a fine day in November; but this morning, September 17, it is
as cold and fevere as the beginning of January in England. The pines and firs are fo
thickly covered with hoar-froft as to bear the appearance of being fprinkled with fnow 5
and the foreft trees have changed their leaves in the {pace of one night.
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