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She loaded the table with lumps of roasted or
baked veal and reindeer venison, the anatomical
relations of which were quite undeterminable.
We were all hungry and ate heartily, but our
hostess was insatiable. When we told her we had
finished, she produced another amorphous mass of
venison, which appeared to have been subjected to
a compound process of baking, roasting, and
slewing, in order to suit all tastes; and she declared
that unless we ate it she must conclude that we
considered her meat bad. Finding this form of
persuasion unavailing, she returned all the blocks
of meat to the caldron or hot-pot from whence
they came, and brought forward some pancakes,
preserved fruits, and rich cream, all of precisely
the same pattern as those with which she struggled
to tempt the appetite of the sick lady eighteen
years before. • We made her happy by enjoying
this third course.
Professor Forbes, who travelled in Norway
mainly for the sake of studying the vestiges ot
its ancient glaciers, says, in reference to the
Dovrefjeld, “ I looked with attention for any
traces of glaciers, either by wearing and polishing
the rocks where they came into view, or in the
deposition of moraines, but I saw nothing very
decisive of either kind. The friable and slaty rock
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