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102 THROUGH NORWAY WITII A KNAPSACK.
most wonderfully. The captain and lieutenant assured
us that all this luxuriance had come into existence
during the last fortnight: that the birch-trees now in
o o
full leaf were quite bare only two weeks ago, when
they made their last voyage. In a few weeks hence
their boughs will be bending under a burthen of
new-fallen snow. There is no closing of the blossoms at
nightfall here—no vegetable repose—no halting of the
upward movement of the sap—but one unceasing
development, stimulated throughout by the continuous
sunbeams; and then comes the long, long winter’s
sleep and darkness, when all the vegetable world lies
torpid beneath its coverlid of snow, until the next short
one-day summer awakens it again to a wild revelry of
life and growth.
We passed several fine glaciers to-day, especially in
the neighbourhood of Kastnehaven. The summer was
late this year, and the quantity of snow greater than
usual at this date; but the weather had been very fine
ever since I arrived at Christiania: two or three
showers, and one wet night, were all I had seen of bad
weather in Norway.
We were disappointed of the midnight sun again
tonight : there are high mountains to the northward; but
the midnight glow was beautiful as ever.
We reached Tromsö, and went ashore. It is a little
trading-town on an island: "ö" is the Norsk for island,
and all places with that termination to their names are
islands. It is only by this, or reference to the map,
that one can distinguish, when on the spot, the islands
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