Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - CHAPTER I. Contrasts — Development of Norwegian tourist traffic — Passengers on the ‘Argo,’ and their tub of introduction — Whales — The Norwegian coast — Stavanger — Glacier vestiges in the High Street — Bergen — Indoor ivy — A Church of England Service conducted in the spirit of Primitive Christianity — Northward Ho! — Aalesund — Christiansund — Delay and disappointment — Trondhjem — Northern luxury — The Cathedral — The Falls of the Nid — A terraced valley — Prosperous farmers — The “Störhaus”— Glacial origin of the terraces.
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We stopped at Stavanger, and most of the
passengers landed and strolled through the town.
The inhabitants, although now pretty well
accustomed to such visits from English tourists, were
obviously surprised at the unusual invasion of
so many ladies; and a procession of many small
Norwegians, and a few full grown, followed us
throughout our wanderings.
Stavanger is a characteristic wooden town, and
being the first that my pupils had seen in Norway,
they were, of course, much interested with the log
walls and verdant roofs of the carefully detached
houses. The cathedral is worth a visit. Its
massive Norman pillars and arches and
harmoniously massive carved pulpit are interesting.
The geology of the district is strikingly
displayed, even in the midst of the town, by the
humpy glaciated mounds of mica-schist that crop
out on the public highways. These rocks are
scarcely distinguishable from those which are
presented to the tourist at his first sight of the
Norwegian coast on the route to Christiania. After
we left Stavanger in the evening and sailed on
towards Bergen, following the coast, and passing
through narrow channels and between islands, we
passed a multitude of bare micaceous rocks
cropping out of the sea, just as the Stavanger rock
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