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126 THROUGH NORWAY WITII A KNAPSACK.
Per fiok.
D. M. s.
Portvin gammel fiin
(fine old Port) 0 4 0
Madeira, gammel drey
(old dry Madeira) . 1 1 0
Ditto .... 0 4 0
Portvin hvid (white
Port) 0 4 0
Sherry, old . 0 3 0
Tennerif 0 2 0
Malaga 0 2 0
Chateau Larose . 0 4 8
Per flok.
D. M. S.
Chateau Lafitte . .10 0
Chateau Leaville .038
St. Jullien . . . 0 1 16
llihnsh viin . . 1 1 12
Haut Sauterne . . 0 2 12
Cherry Cordial . .038
Sherry, god . .0116
London Brown Stout . 0 1 12
Ditto half . 0 0 20
Ale, Edinburgher . 0 0 20
01 . . . .008
We met some Englishmen here, and a German artist,
Professor Hildebrandt, who had just returned from an
excursion to the North Cape. We fraternized, of course,
and our party was thereby enlarged.
The heat was surprisingly great, and the musquitoes
most annoying. An odour of hot cod-liver pervaded
the whole of Hammerfest; and if there be any virtue
in cod-liver oil, this must be a paradise for consumptive
patients. This odour from the cauldrons of stewing
liver, which is common to all the northern stations, is
very disagreeable at first, until the nose becomes
educated to it. Walking along the sea-shore, I was struck
with the smallness of the shells ; of which there is a
considerable quantity, including several species of
Gas-teropods : the common periwinkle, for example, is very
abundant, but about one-third the average size of those
on our coast. I saw an abundance of the shells of small
Echini, but no Actiniae, either here or at Tromsö or Bodü.
On the outskirts of the town is the termination of
the great meridian line of 25° 20’, drawn from the
Danube, near Rustcliuk, to the Arctic Ocean. This is,
I believe, the longest meridian-line that has been care-
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