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several buildings, the cape may be reached by an
overland journey of about twelve miles.
We call at several of these lonely settlements or
stations, and reach Kepvaag, the largest, at 1 p.m.,
then steam onward up the Porsangerfjord. The
rocks are curiously weathered hereabout, especially
near Kepvaag. As we proceed up the fjord, the
craggy precipitous promontories disappear, and
low glaciated islands and rounded hills of moderate
elevation prevail. At Kistrand, where there is
a church and parsonage, the ancient glacier bed
forms a cultivated grassy slope, on which some
actual farming is done. I have little doubt that
this deep and wide fjord was once filled by a great
glacier which poured down from the south. The
high table-land above the fjord, especially the
promontory separating it from the Laxefjord,
everywhere displays the same lawn-like effect of
glacier planing as the surface of Magerö above
the North Cape.
The north headland of this promontory of Spirte
Njarga, Sverholtklubben, is a huge precipitous
rock like the North Cape, but still finer, more wild
and jagged. The Fuglebjerg, forming a part of
this promontory, presents one of the most
wonderful displays of animal life to be seen in any part of
the world. The rock weathers perpendicularly
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