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322 THROUGH NORWAY WITII A KNAPSACK.
customers, and corkscrews were in great demand.
There are several terraces in this valley of the river
Drammen, but they are not so high above the level of
the river as those of the northern valleys.
Drammen is a very long town, longer even than the
" lang toun o’ Kirkakly." It has some fifteen thousand
inhabitants; is about five miles long and nothing broad,
being simply a row of houses on each side of a broad
river. There are many handsome villas in the
neighbourhood belonging to the rich timber-merchants; they
are built of wood brightly painted, and have handsome
gardens around them. There is no national costume
in Drammen: round hats and ample skirts prevail
among the women, and black dress coats and Panama
hats are most common among the men. I heard many
pianos and a good deal of singing in the houses, and
passed some public rooms where there were many
dancers. It was about sunset when I reached the
commencement of Drammen, and quite dark by the time
I had walked partly through it.
I was dismissed very cavalierly from the first hotel at
which I applied. It was the chief hotel of the place,
and possessed a waiter, who, with the natural instinct
of his species, looked up and down me, estimated the
value of my clothes, and then showed me the door. It
is true that my boots were reduced to the last
extremities of barely adhering to my feet; my trousers, which
originally were of shepherd’s plaid, had acquired a
uniform tint, similar to that which distinguishes the
garments of brickmakers and navvies ; my coat, of the
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