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good of the house” — Why should the wine pay for the dinner?
— Wines in Norway — The Stolkjaerre — The Sognefjord — Coal
seams in the course of formation — The probable origin of some of
our coal seams — Irregular proceedings and unjust suspicions
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CHAPTER XVI.
Start for the Fillefjeld — The old road — Borgund Church and its
probable origin — Hiring of carrioles — Good stations — Glacier
débris on the Fillefjeld — Causes of glacial epochs — Descend the
Fillefjeld — Good horses and a good caterer — The Vangs Mjosen
— Succeeding lakes — Possibility of making a canal highway —
A difficulty at last — A long walk on a dark night by unprotected
females in a strange country — Hanging on behind — A dog with a
bad name — Wild strawberries and raspberries on the roadside —
The Etna and Baegna valleys — Pine forests and their reputed
curative agency .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 318
CHAPTER XVII.
The Randsfjord — The corruptions of civilization — A mining and
timber district — Norwegian roughs — Drammen and drunkenness
— Christiania — Magnitude of our exploit — My theory of our
exemption from mishaps — The home sympathy of Englishmen with
Norway — Limit of numbers in Norwegian travelling parties —
How to obtain the highest degree of enjoyment and advantage
in overland Norwegian travelling — Glaciation again — Gottenburg
and London .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 337
APPENDIX I.
Travelling Expenses in Norway.
Conversion of farmhouse stations to country inns — Where to find
the primitive stations now — New ground for pedestrians — Charges
at town hotels, country hotels, and ordinary stations — Norwegians
not yet corrupted by tourists — Posting rates — Steam-packet fares
in Norway — Rates of passage from England to Norway .. 353
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