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A ROUGH ROAD AND A HARD BED.
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lialting-place of any kind, indicated for the whole
distance. The man with the wooden shoes urged me very
strongly to take a guide, but I was too conceited of
my mountaineering skill to do so. Besides, Murray
says that it is a post-road, and talks coolly of carrioles,
long stages, &c.; which is even more amusing than the
account given of my previous day’s route.
There is a sort of road for about a mile out of
Rödal, but not adapted for anything with wheels.
Afterwards it is a track about a foot wide, mere
shoe-wearings upon the rock; and even this track is lost
altogether at the crossing of every bog: of which there
are many. The track is really a difficult one to keep;
for although not marked on the map, there are many
saeters, and paths leading to them, which may be easily
mistaken for the track across the fjeld. This fjelcl,
like the others I have crossed, is for the most part a
dull, dreary waste: a rolling moor, diversified with
bogs, many stagnant pools or lakes, and occasional
mountain ridges. I walked on all the day long over
this sort of ground, and at about nightfall came upon
a ridge of mountains.
As soon as it became too dark to follow the track any
fartlier, I sought a bed-chamber, and found a capital
one; a sort of shallow cavern formed by an
overhanging or undermined mass of rock, the floor of which
was a nicely hollowed, clean block of stone. I
ascertained this by throwing a lighted wax match into it;
thinking it just possible that such snug quarters might
be already tenanted by a bear, or a family of wolves.
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