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seven, all being stouter and shorter, and very
round-shouldered.
Had I only described them I might have adopted
either of these families and have escaped
unscathed, but I had made a sketch of them, had been
sufficiently rash to publish an engraving thereof,
and bring on board a copy of the book containing
it. The discrepancy between my sketch and all
that we saw snubbed me very considerably. I
continued to feel like an impostor until our return
journey, when we passed the original Seven Sisters,
retaining their original graceful proportions, and
justifying every detail and particular of my sketch
down to the cliff near the sea and the two groups
of farm buildings. Instead of exaggerating their
peculiarities, as I seemed to have done on our
northward journey, it now became evident that
my errors were all—as usual—on the side of
modesty and moderation. The engraving, which
is reproduced on the opposite page, fails to convey
an adequate idea of their dimensions. They appear
much taller. Their height, according to Van Buch,
is 4000 feet, but this is, I think, an excessive
estimate.
The veritable sisters stand on Alstenö, an island
forming the west side of Vefsenfjord. The Danish
packet takes a different course from that of the
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