Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-10-28

like o mammoth feece of wool. tan. tvsr.
ty, perhaps thirty, miles away, is where a
river leaps from an indiscernable gorge.
A thousand feet higher, but nearer on tie
ford side, is psnciling of wsvering white
"A waterfall pounded by the airs rssis-
tance into hssitant waving folds of mist
hundreds of feet before they touch the
rippleless hords where they fall. Above
and bsyond all this, blending into india
tinguishsble threads and lines of sky snd
cloud, are ranges of eternal ice and snow
And so, on and on and almost epdlssslv
on challenged by these strange, wild and
beautiful scenes, you msy 20 tirelessly.
habitation, comfort and pleasant compsn.
ionships, all you're; past sturdy old
Throndbjem, the northerpmost city of i'm.
portance In Europe, with the wild and
racing Md, tearing and bounding from the
mountains In msisstic waterfalls, outlin-
ing Its curious almost leland site, and its
orunbling old cathedral towering above its
red roofs and peaked gables; past Bodo
with It's sod-roof huts and barn-like mod
srn buildings; past Torghettan with its
world-fsmous rocky tunnel; past the mar
velous "bird-mountsin," Svatholt, q
strange, weird, perpendicular promontory
OF clay slate whore millions of white sea.
fowl cluster like wresths and strings of
pearls; past the far north Lofoden Islands,
around which huddle countless Norwegian
fishing and where more than
twenty million Of cod are annually taken;
round the bleak, blsck, drear and dread
full North Cape, Its mossy back strangely
lighted by the yellow light of the north
ern sun; and finally sweeping past meas
ureless heights of brown, bare stone, ever
backed by glacier fields untredden bv foot
of man, and the vast mouths of Porraugsr
and Tsns iords, black and dun and awful
as the entrance TO Vathek's Eblis, you
skirt the dssolste peninsula of Warisk-
Mag, and, sailing from the east out of the
Arctic ocean, float gently through the SOM
bre Wsringer ford, dropping anchor be-
fore Fadso, the northernmost inhabited
place in Europe.
Here are perhaps two thousand souls
who subsist almost wholly upon the indus
tries connected with the whale-6sheries.
You will hnd Firms and Lspps in abun-
dance, but ell the commercial dealings Of
the plscs are carried on by Norwegians.
The entire country roundabout differs lit
tie In appearance from the eastern shore of
Labrador, SIS | recall 1t. Everlasting stone
in every conceivable formation stretches
back In forhidding mountain reaches to
the frozen silencss of Nowhere. Humans
squstty or thin are clad like animals, have
faces Ike animals and habits like beasts.
Here and there are seen tufts of Hickly
sfssR, brittle moss, aud trees Ensrled,
stuuted, tempest blow and frozen into
utter insigniscapcs. Everywhere is the
nauseEting stencil of fsh in every stage of
omnipresent olTensivensss. But over all
the often burning rays of the sun which
here, in its brief days of fsdelessness, seems
more torrid and deadly than ] have ever
felt its power 10 Cuba or AlgEerE. True,
you have actually seen the midnight sun.
To me the spectacle seemed 9 sorry show,
snd not half the glory in It Of a senEible,
timely sun Of the z ons of homes sinking
behind the Landscape Of g gentle EogliEh
shire, or sweet New EagiAni vale.
EDGAR l.. WAKEEAN.