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as a signal of recognition, and by doing so was
overbalanced and fell. Slie watched his falling body till it
disappeared in the foam of the Riukan Foss ; when the
dark veil of madness fell over her mind, and fulfilled its
beneficent intent by shutting out a knowledge too
horrible for endurance.
A little girl from the farm guided me to the edge of
the precipice, from which a distant view of the fall is
obtained. From this point it is much like the Voring
Foss, but can be better seen. My guide then showed
me the beginning of the track leading to the Marie
Stige, telling me that she was forbidden from going to
the Marie Stige itself. I gave her 4 skillings, which
she protested was too much, at the same time offering
to return two, and it was with great difficulty that I
induced her to keep the whole amount of rather less
than twopence.
I then proceeded along what I supposed to be the
Marie Stige, a ledge of rock trodden with footsteps,
varying from six inches to a foot in width, with a sloping
wall of rock above and the chasm below; this
continued until I came to a part where there are two tracks,
one apparently leading over the hill, the other direct to
the midst of the perpendicular wall of the precipice
(which is seen a little farther on rising to a fearful
height overhead) and proceeding downwards to the gulf
below, with an unbroken smoothness that looks utterly
hopeless: but I determined to go on as long as there
was any vestige of a track. Following thus the marks
of footsteps, I came out at last not upon the edge, but
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