The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-10-02

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EXTRACTS FROM DIR. HURsT's LETTER TO
THE METHODIST.
The man or beast compelled to spend two
days on the Categat and Skagerack, in the
weather usually prevalent there, is diserv-
ing of all possible commseration. | could
not conceive at first why the dinner should
be hurried up at such an uncontinental
honr as was ours, at high noon. Immed-
lately after, the steamer Princess Louise
left the dock at Copenhagen; but the high
sea which struck us in the afternoon ex-
planned the matter fully, and little trouble
did any of the passengers give the cooks
the rest of the voyage to Christiania. We
had the company of our missionary, the
Rev. MIR. Willerup, as far as the bald rocks
OF Fredericksvarn. 1t was really plea
sure to see him moving about among his
sea-sick fellow-passengers, and contribu-
ting as much as he could to their comfort;
and can wish your friend no better fortune
on that stormy meeting place of winds and
currents than some such an experienced
Morse sailor as he near at hand. As our
ound-bottomed vessel was rolling and
pitching in every direction, and l asked
him how long he thought the storm would
last, the Scandinavian Presiding Elder re-
piled that that had been for years part of
his district, and that the weather was now
unusually good''-a statement fully sup
ported afterward by the captain. l could
only think, ''if this be your good, what must
be your bad p
The maps give no adequate idea of the
insular character of the Swedish and Nor
wegian coast. We were in sight of what
seemed to be land at least half the time,
but occasionally we saw that the horizon
was only bounded by vast clusters of utter
ly soilless rocks, between which the glass
sometimes disclosed some nesting fisher
mems huts. The rocky islands could be
counted by the hundred, and we became in
time familiarized to them. On entering
the bay or river (the Scandinavians say
.ford) up which Christiania, the Norwe-
gian capital, is situated, the water grew as
smooth as Lake George ON a clear summer
evening, and its surface scarcely less fire.
quently interrupted by verdant and highly
picturesque islands than that gem of Amer
icanlakes. The approach to the city presents
a combination of beauty and grandeur that
we little anticipated. lie who expects to
find stunted vegetation and chill atmos-
phcre in Norway on an ordinary August
day, will be greatly deceived. The fields
and gardens of the country around this
charming city smiled CHEEKY welcome to
the score or two of jaded travellers from
Copenhagen; the luxuriance everywhere
was to me at least so unexpected that |
wondered how far, after ALL must a man go
toward the North Pole in midsummer be-
fore he has to put his overcoat ON. And
yet the first night in Norway-if night it
could be called-was sufficient to remind
the stranger in this land that the sun hard
ly goes down at all for two full summer
months. On June 21st, the longest day in
the year, he does not set at all in northern
Norway, and last night, six weeks after
this date, there was not over an hour when
there was no perceptible trace of sunlight,
and that short interval was made strangely
beautiful by the constant and peculiar
flashes Of Aurora Borealis. You can here
keep as late hours as you choose and yet
retire and rise without artificial light. No
wonder, then, that in some parts of Nor
way, the gardens are as charming as on the
banks of the Arno, that the markets of
Christiania, through which we have just
been strolliug, and even of COOLER Iron
theim also, abound in as many varieties of
flowers and fruits, with perhaps the single
exception Of grapes, as are offered by the
market women under the shadow of the old
Frankfort Cathedral, for the sun shines
nearly the whole twenty four hours, and
must ripen every kind of plant in an in
credibly short space of time. Since we
have been here we have made a Journey
farther to the north, reaching the G2 degree
of north latitude, which crosses Greenland
well up, ana, on our map, intersects the
southern tongue of Iceland, and yet even
there, as our horses rested, counted in 4
peasants garden, bcets, beans, radishes,
and several other varieties of familiar veg
teeming with rye, oats, barley, and flax.
A GLIMPSE OF NORWEGIAN ROYALTY.
The most conspicuous building in Chris
tiania is the Palace, which crowns the hill
at the upper end of the city. We wander
ed up toward it as much to see what was
was the meaning of the throng of people
moving in that direction as to get view of
the Palace itself Having reached the sur
rounding grounds we learned that the
Prince Royal of Sweden and Norway,
Oscar, with his family, had just arrived
The front windows of the room in which
they received visits were open, and the lit
tie princes, four in number, dressed in such
plain suits of coarse brown linen rs many
an American farmers son would feel
ashamed to wear, played at the window,
and lifted their caps to the soldiers and the
band as they passed. After a time the
Prince Royal and his wife came to the Win
dow too, and looked a few minutes at the
crowd, as if wondering what reception their
appearance would meet with. But not a
hat was raised, not huzza shouted, and
not gun fired, as that family, the future
rulers of Sweden and Norway, stood before
the people. Prince Oscar is tall, slender
man, of apparently about forty years of
age and his wife, a Dutch princess, evil
IDENTIFY as old, or nearly so. They were
both dressed in black, without any display
of iewelry. afterward asked a Norwegian
why the people did not receive the Prince,
the direct descendant of their great Berna-
dotte, with some applause.
"Oh.'' said he substantially, "we Nor