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BEAUTIFUL SCENERY OE VALLEYS. 153
estuaries or fiords up which the sea penetrated, and that
subsequent upheaval of the whole country has driven
the sea back. If such be the case, all the valleys
hereabouts must present indications of such terraces more
or less distinctly marked, according to the quantity of
detritus their rivers have brought down into the quiet
waters of the ancient fiord.
The richness and beauty of these valleys contrast
most strikingly and pleasantly with the wild and desolate
scenery I had just left.
Several fine views of the Trondhjem fiord are obtained
from different parts of the road, which ascends many
hills, and crosses bright sunny valleys that bring down
to the fiord small rivers which spread out into
beautiful little lakes at several places; the banks of these
lakes being rich alluvial slopes, studded Avith thriving
farms.
I find that my note-book is quite enthusiastic over the
scenery of this day’s walk, but on re-writing it I have
made some deductions; for it is always the case when
coming upon scenery that contrasts strongly with what
has preceded it, or on emerging from town to country,
that there is a tendency to overrate the beauties which
strike so freshly upon the mind. Had this been the
last day of a long walk instead of the first, I should
have thought much less of the scenery. Any one who
has sailed up the Rhine on the way to Switzerland, and
then returned by the same route, must have been struck
with the great difference in the impression which the
Rhine scenery made upon him on going and returning.
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