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bill. This moral warmth, added to the grateful
radiations from the stove, soon banished the
disagreeable recollections of the day’s journey, and left
us free to recall the magnificence of the scenery
through which we had passed. I think we all
agreed that it was one of the grandest panoramas
we had ever witnessed in the course of a day’s
journey. This certainly is my own opinion. A
new road is in the course of construction, and I
have little doubt that ere long it will take rank
among the lions of Norway.
August 22nd.—According to all the canons of
good society, six English ladies, after the sixteen
hours’ exposure of yesterday, should be confined
to their rooms, and utterly prostrated with fearful
colds; any approach to getting up to breakfast
being utterly impossible and undreamable.
Not so in Norway—not so at Nedre Yasenden;
all were up, all well, never better, breakfast in
good time. It might have been very different had
we commenced our journey hereabouts, as two of
the ladies were in delicate health when we left
England; such a day as this might then have been
too much for them. But after sailing round the
North Cape, breathing the bracing air of the Arctic
Ocean, and driving over the Dovrefjeld, &c., they
were prepared to endure and enjoy an amount
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