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narrow notch. The brown tint is just visible
against the white stones at the bottom of the
shallows near the pier, and increases to blackness
as the water deepens. This dark tinge gradually
changes to green on passing out of the branch into
the main fjord.
There was one feature of our travelling
arrangements which prevailed all the way between
Hellesylt and Yadheim, that I must not omit to
mention, viz. the absence of carrioles, and general
prevalence of the stolkjaerre, i. e. chair car, or
chaise, or in pure English, a “ one-horse shay.”
It is made like the carriole, all of wood, and with
similar long shafts. Near to the footboard another
pair of shafts is attached to the main shafts; these
supernumerary shafts branch obliquely upwards
and backwards, at an angle of about 45°, and to
their upper end the seat is affixed. It thus rests
upon the upper end of a pair of wooden springs.
This seat, thus mounted or merely suspended over
the axle, with no support immediately below, is
simply a board, wide enough for two persons to
sit upon, with an open-railed back. The luggage
and conductor rest as in the carriole, on the stern
ends of the main shafts, which are extended
backwards to some distance bevond the back of the seat,
for this purpose.
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