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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recent rains and snow thaw. Although these are
only classed with the ordinary waterfalls of
Norway, we all agreed that they are finer than any
in Switzerland. They are best comparable with
the falls of the Rhine at Schaffhausen, but the
Nid is 450 feet wide at the Store Lerfoss, against
300 feet, the width of the Rhine. The height of
the Rhine fall is 60 feet on the one side and 45
feet on the other, against 100 feet of the Lerfoss.
The quantity of water is, as far as I may judge
from memory, about the same on both rivers, but
more outspread in the upper Lerfoss, and more
heaped and concentrated than that of the Rhine in
the lower Lerfoss. Both falls are more
perpendicular than that at Schaffhausen. The rebound
of the lower fall is especially fine; not merely
spray, but tons of pounded shattered water shoot
up nearly as high as they have fallen, and a cloud
of spray rises far above this. There is a good
point of view from a square stone platform at the
first fall, just where the river bends in glassy,
unbroken wave before “the hell of waters” begins.
At the upper fall, also, is a natural platform about
two-thirds from the top, from which the view of
the fall is especially magnificent.
This first and moderate experience of
Norwegian waterfalls prepared those among our party
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