New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-13

but Ibis the LAID OF Ceots's, NJ" '"o'' ."
msuv one 10: even distinguished BY name,
which would Be rnounedin Swi;z 'rland. Ashed
mx uo..uon the pane OF the stream beside ua
.Oh. - aid no, ait has none; it 10 not large
.n,peb." He wanted 70 take rs all the way
.hycush 70 Gudsargen, % miles, on our paying
stubIe fare, predicting that we would bs obliged to
~ais three bours for fresh horses st esca n'erme-
date station He waited some time a. rvinde' the
frs. rtatep, in TIE hope tina. We would yield oas
departed suddenly in q rsge, on se''ng that Inc
horses were already coming At this pla'e, asssuf
youog fellow, who had evidently been asleep, came
GU. 9. the house and stood in the door staring Us
With open mouth for full hour. The post m"tef
"a. Cd The step and did Likewise. 1t was the h'sos
OF haryest.time sDd the weather favorable almost
10 miracle, ret most Of the harvestors lay upon
Their backs under the trees, an We passed. The
women appeared to do most of the outdoor a. well
a. Tie 10 door work They are certainly far more
industrious than the men, who, judging from what
law Of them, are downright incident Evidences
Of slow, patient, ploddDs toll one sees truly, but
active industry, thrift and honest ambition,
nowhere.
The scenery increased in wildness and roughness
- We proceeded. The summit Of Hvitnaaset White
No.e) lifted its pnnsces Of gray rock over the
brow Of the mountain on the north, and in front,
pale blue gray ps,ks, Eve thousand feet high, ap.
oesred on either band The next station WAS q
village Of huts On the side ola bill. Every body wss
in the fields except one woman, who remained 70
tske charge Of the station. She was stupid crea-
.pre, bat had q proper sense Of her duty, for she
START at full speed to order horses and we after
ward found that che must have run full three En-
glsb miles in the space Of half an hour. The emf
srstion 10 America from this part Of Bergeostft
has been very great and the people exhibited much
curiosity TO zee and speak with US.
The scenery became at the same time more bar
rem and more magnificent as we approached the
last station, S.alheim, which is miserable Little
village a. the head of the famous N1r0dal. Our
farmer. postilon wished TO take rs on to Gud-
vspgen with the same hor'es urging the same rea-
sons 50 the former one 1t would have been better
if we had accepted bis proposal, but our previous
experience had made us mistrustfuL The man
,pche truth, however: hour after hour passed
away, and the horses came not. A few miserable
PEOPLE collected about US and begged money. l
sks,ched the Oldest usiest and drtest Of them, as
specimen, but regretted it afterward, as bis graft
tude on receiving trife for sitting obliged me to
give him my hand. Hereupon an,ther old fellow,
not quite 80 hideOus, led to be taken also.
"Lsrs," said woman to the former, "are you
not ahamed TO have SO ugly face as yours 60 to
Apericaf" "Ob," .aid he, 1T does not look so
Ugly in the book" His delight on getting the
money created some amusement "Indeed," he
protested, ~ am poor, and want it, and you need
not laugh"
The last gush of sunset wa, brightning the tops
Of the ,avsge Field, when the horses arrived. We
had waited two hours and three quarters, and
therefore wrote complaint in the post book, 10 my
best Norsk. From the top of hill beyond the vii
lsge, we looked down into the Ner6dal. We stood
on the brink of tremendous wall about thousand
feet above the valley. On one side. the stream we
had been following fell in single cascade four hun
ored feet; on the other a second stresm, issuing
from some unseen defle, flung its several ribbons
Of foam from nearly an equal hight. The valley
or rather gorge disappeared in front between noun
ns of sheer rock which rose to the hight OF three
thousand feet The road-a splendid specimen Of
eDQineerDg-wss doubled back and forth around
the edge Of q spur projecting from the wall on
which we stood and so descended to the bottom
Once below, our carioles rolled rapidly down the
gorge, which was already dusky with twilight. The
stream, of the most exquiste translucent azure
areen color, rolled beside us, and the mountain.
crests lowered 20 far above that necks ached
We looked upward. have seen but one valley
which in stupendous depth and sublimity can equal
the Nar0dal-the pass Of the Taurus, in Asia NJ.
nor leading from Cappsdocia into Cilics. In many
pisces the precipces were two thousand feet in
perpendicular hight, and the streams Of the upper
Field falling from their SUBMITS, lost themselves
in evanescent water-dust before they reached the
bottom. The bed of the valley was heaped with
fragments Of rock which are loOsed from above
with every returning Spring.
Itwas quite dark before We reached Gudvengen,
thoroughly tired out and as hungry as wolves. My
postilion, on hearing me complain, pulled . piece
Of dried mutton out of his pocket aud gave to me.
He was very anxious 10 learn whether brandy and
Tobacco, were a. dear in America % in Norway: if
90, be did rot wish to emisrate. A stout gil had
charge Of Brsisted's horse: the female Positions
always fell to his lot She complained of hard work
aid poor pay, and would emigrate if she had the
money. At Gudvangen, we had tourney Of
thirty FIVE miles before US, and therefore engaged
two boats with eight oarsmen for the morrow. The
people tried had TO make US take moro, but we
had more than the number actually required BY
law, and, as il turned out, quite as many as were