The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-10
fJoRps OF NORWAY.
Instructive Description OF y stern An
Plcturcsque Country.

Picturesque Country.
The fjords or fords are deep-ses
creeks, running far into the mountains
and the inland on the whole coast
from the far north down to the borde,
of Sweden. In some instances these
creeks are over hundred miles long
from one to four miles broad, and as
deep as the outer sea. They ramify
into countless arms, jagged and rough.
On Typographical map they have
been likened to the bent trunk of q
dead tree, with the larger gnarled
branches projecting, but stripped Of
smaller limbs. These branches end In
deep, narrow valleys extending still
| farther inland, in which are long,
deep lakes on higher attitudes and
once combinations of the fiords before
the country was lifted high above the
sea- From these fiords huge mount.
aims iiit their precipitous heights from
one to five thousand feet directly from
the water, with here and there steep
slopes, on which little patches of culti-
vable lands mingle with the precipices
as If they had been hung upon them to
dry. Generally, however, the mount
aims lift at once in sheer precipices, or
in mighty rocks with little terraces on
which stunted trees find scanty foot
hold, or ledgcs green with light grass.
Behind these mountains are Upper
mountain plateaus, covered with gla-
ciers and eternal SHOWS, and over their
crests pour waterfalls, so far up that
they are lost in mist, to be again
gathered into tumbling streams on
lower rocky projections, or having
worn the rocky sides down into more
gradual descents, they hang like
silvery bands, one and two thousand
feet long, on the frowning mass of
granite. The mountains are all OF
volcanic origin, and stand as they
stood when first cooled off, after being
belched forth from the deep bowels of
the earth, more or less modified by the
action of water and frosts through
countless ages. They lift in monster
domes, rounded and bald headed,
smooth and nearly solid, and could
they be looked upon from far-off
heights they would appear as vast
water-wo-n bowlders, strcwn in ir-
regular order on the face of the land
In one regard they make this one of
the oldest parts of the earth, for they
are all composed of primary rocks,
thrown up by the globes eternal fires,
and bear upon themselves no second
ary formation. In fact, however,
suspect that this is one of the newest
OF lands, and is the creation OF one of
the worlds later cataclasms. This is
evidenced, first by the absence of over
lying stratified rocks and clays, and
yet more strikingly by the sharp lines
and edges of monster fragmentary
rocks which often lie in Titanic masses
as they fell down from the heights
into gorges and narrow valleys, broken
from their Inoorings by too rapid cool
ing. Vast piles of these fragments
are often met with, piled like Ossa
upon Pelion, into lofty hills. These
great fragments are seen two or more
hundred feet in diameter. with edges
as sharp as if they had been cleaved
but yesterday, resting upon underly-
ing monsters, with crevices as large
as caves, aud on points so small that
few strokes of IA sledgehammer would
change the position of countless mil
lions of tons. There are no pinnacles,
needles ali horns to be seen in Nor
way piercing the skies as in the Alps
or our own Rockies, but the tallest
points present somewhat rounded
crowns on che background of the sky.
Garter IT, Harrison, IN Chicago Mail.