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was only accessible to a few of the hardiest
tourists; now, however, it is fairly opened by
steam navigation, and is becoming properly
appreciated. A share of the merit of this
appreciation is fairly due to Captain Dahl, who speaks
English well, and rivals the boatmen of Killarney
in his enthusiastic fulness of knowledge of the
topography and local traditions of all these
fjords, and his obliging earnestness in directing
the attention of his tourist passengers to every
interesting object, and communicating his store
of knowledge connected therewith.
The first part of the trip, the eastward course,
through the Storfjord is the least interesting, the
characteristic features developing themselves fully
on turning southward into the Slyngsfjord. This,
and its continuation, the Sunelvsijord, as well
as its side branches, the Nordalsfjord and the
G-eirangerfjord, are sea-paved gullies, lying
between rock walls of steep incline, or nearly
perpendicular, which rise from 1000 to 3000 or
4000 feet above the deep salt water. The first
point specially named in my notebook is that part
of the fjord near the station of Hove, at the mouth
of the branching valley of the Stoldal; the valley of
Stoldal itself, and the waterfall on the right side of
the main fjord after leaving Hove, are very fine.
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