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dreaming of refreshment. We came out again
fully convinced that Bennett was right.
Individually, selectively, and egotistically I enjoyed this
station and the preceding, inasmuch as the
comforts of the Ilomsdal and Dovrefjeld stations
had made my descriptions of the hardships of
Norwegian travel appear rather overdrawn. Here,
however, I could introduce the young ladies to a
sample of my old quarters in the Tellemark, and
justify all my anxieties concerning the present
route.
The scenei’y, however, is magnificent hereabouts,
but the weather was very bad, and marred it sadly.
The Horningdalskrakken was buried in clouds,
and the grand view over the Horningdals Yand
was half hidden in mist.
Sounding’s have been taken in this lake down to
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1600 feet. It may be much deeper in some parts.
Its surface is hut 180 feet above the sea level,
showing a much greater depth than that of the
sea beyond. This is the case with many of the
lakes and the fjords that stretch far inland. My
explanation of this is, that the sea outside has been
shallowed by the deposit from the out-thinning
glacier, while the ice farther inland, near the
greater mountains, was so thick that it rested on
the bottom of these valleys, and eroded them as
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