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explain. So long as the water is beginning to
reach the skin in unconnected patches, just wetting
the knees, or the shoulders, finding crevices by
which to trickle down the back, &c., a miserable
shrinking, writhing, crouching series of sensations
are produced, accompanied with futile struggles to
escape; hut when all the fibres of one’s garments
are uniformly soaked throughout, and no further
downpour can make them any worse, a feeling of
resignation supervenes, and a soothing influence
is produced by the action of the general poultice
which envelopes the whole surface of the body.
Thus we started with some grumbling, followed
by general wretchedness, but at the end of this stage
we were all laughing at each other’s pitiful plight.
The drive from our landing place to the next
station, Schey or Ovre Yasenden, is through one
of the most magnificent passes in Norway or
anywhere else. It is a valley of desolation strewn
with the ruins of a shattered world. The road
winds amidst immense heaps of broken rocks
heaped upon other broken rocks in the wildest
confusion ; under the shadow of dark frowning
precipices, along blasted shelves overhanging a
torrent roaring down innumerable white foam
slopes, or sleeping here and there in shady
outspread pools of inky blackness ; waterfalls pitching
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