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stations on this route, developed into something
like an inn during the interval, hut is still a
farm and still has the group of houses inhabited
by hay, cows, &c., that puzzled me of old. The
host now speaks English, and is very attentive.
Beyond this station is a new road, one of those
splendid specimens of this branch of engineering
that are so abundant in Norway. I doubt whether
there is any country in the world of equal
magnitude where the average difficulties of
roadmaking are so great as in Norway, and I may
safely assert that there is none which is so well
provided with roads—that is, which has equal
mileage of good roads in proportion to its popula tion.
This road is a ledge blasted out of a rock wall, with
the steep mountain slope on one side, a deep wild
gorge on the other, and a raving torrent far
below. At the short bends of road overlooking
the line of the torrent the scenery is especially
grand. At one of these points where the road
passes perpendicularly above the torrent, the
depth of the precipice along the brink of which
the carrioles are driven is seven hundred feet.
Some pieces of rock stand up as protecting posts.
This portion of the road was made in 185S, and
bears the customary inscription stating the date of
its construction. It continues to the next station,
Austberg, where the valley opens.
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