Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-12-09

LONDON, NOV. 81 1898. 10 the
traveller in Norway the impression Is
constantly recurring that the country
po,sesses the greatest amount Of majcs
tie scenery and the iewcst people OF any
babitable land on the face Of the globe.
Perhaps this feeling is strongest with the
vanderer ON foot along the mountain
highways. What might be termed the
srperabundance Of natures tremendous
spectacles often saddens and even
sprals the spectator, who finds seant
relief in Lumap contact or even in 'ha,
.ssnic contrast which provides repose
ram awe.inspitcd emotions
These panorsmas Of nature have been
provided In such vast proportions aud
a.e 50 endless in number, that some.
tbinq like headache and heart ache
follow the unielieyed emotional tension.
one Involuntary cries out, In the surieit
oiit al. for respite; just as one who has
passed with unwrecked mind through
the mountain.height spiritual'and sound
tomadoes OF Wagnef's "ParsiIal," at
Bayteulh. feels that reason might be
easily dcthroned Il the human gaietes
of Berlin and Paris we're not convenient.
Iynear TO assist in speedy restoration.
Without a companion should have
despaired Of tramping more than from
one drcary station to another Indeed
1 find love best the lands Of peoples, Of
activities and homes. The mileposis.
as would be remarked In dear old Ire.
land, are too far apart In Norway.
There are too much Of frozen field and
placier.peaked mountain between clus-
tcrs Of homes. And when. after always
iouneying long and far. you come upon
human kind, while you certainly meet
honest folk, hospitable folk and, univcr.
ally folk possessing extraordinary viz.
tues Of mind and character, you still
detect the ineilable sadness and appall.
ing loneliness Of surrounding nature
reelected in their faces; as you will find,
the world over. vacuuus meagcrnCss
transmitted from changcless surround.
iHgs into the natures and faces Of all
human 1AHiAArHAANNN AAAANA HNHAN rAA-AANNAANHH
Whenever ! close my eyes and see
Norway and her people In retrospect,
both seem 10 blend In solidihcd strata o.
perspective Down there, almost on the
sea level In the lower valleys, are the
scant folk with solemn faces aud solemn
ways; so measured and eNacting IN toll
or pleasure that they suggest huge
lchcns which have chung through the
storms Of ages to the mountain bases Of
stone. The next stratum Is an inter.
miugling Of forest, rock, mofaine and
waterfall. the latter so stupendous and
ilrccy that they seem like shattered de-
Sending glaciers. arrested IN theil
hcadlong course and frozen into a whit,
so wondrous that no earthly art car
attain rs purity. Above this is a thif
layer OF humans and herds, the yerl
color OF the snow streaks and rock
grays intcfspefsed-the saeter folk and
their flocks, that pass the brief summe
thousands OF feet above their kin ant
kind Then come the measureless fields
rock and Ice fields OF utter solitude anS
dcsolation; the whole crowned by count
less ghostly peaks Of ice, far above th'
clouds, an awful realm OF frozen silence
between the last vcstige OF natural-liil
and the eternal infinite.
! had penetrated to the mysteriou
"caglc-nest" farms above the clouds
and now desired TO see something O
saetcr life In the same lofty regions
Descending the lordly Romsdal, tn
most wonderful Of all Norwegian valleys
partly by carrole aud partly on loot
from Hallker to Neblungsnacs, ! CAM
upon the jolliest skydsgut or post.boy
had found In all Norway tow-headed
bIg.eyed, open.mouth Lars Peterson. o
Peter Larsen, ! am not sure which
Trampiug alone had become insuiicrable
Fora tuiling consideration purchase,
the companionship and willing service
Of Lars for a period OF ten days. III
had been taught English at school, ha,
been four years post.boy coming h
contact IN that period with thousands o
Englshmen and Americans; though no
sixteen years OF age he was as strong a
an OK and nimble as a deer and, Will,
ripping and running over with a gurg
ling and boundless good nature, had {
Mark Tapley sort Of philosophy ior al
unpleasant emergencies and read!
back door out OF every exasperalinl
difficulty
The RomSdal is a tremendous gorg,
or gully from 1000 to 1000 feet deep, anS
from fifty TO sixty miles In length, cutting
through some Of the highest mountain
and the greatest snow and ice fields o
Norway. Along most OF us length wall
rise on either side precipitously up.
wards OF 5000 feet; and over these pitcl
waterfalls not by the half dozen or dozti
but by the score, most OF them having
sheer fall for their entire descent Thesl
feed and increase the volume o
the Reuma river, along which winds IN,
highway, that nearly the whole distanc,
iuams and tumbles and roars In noisl
turbulence ON It's northwest course I,
the ford OF Molde and the sea. /
should be called the somber Vale o
Waterfalls. There Is nothing TO complr,
with It IN any part Of the explore,
globe.
We loilered At the Sletta Foss, whert
the Rouma itself tumbles into the valley
between Stucllallen and Omcin stations
% the triple Nermedals Foss, and pass
ed DAYS OF pleasure and wonder between
Omein and Horghtim, where there ar,
hundreds of these water matyels. vary
ing from 500 to 5000 feet in fail, anI
where at one place counted ilty.thrc,
10 full view al one time; saw the film,
DontCl1ssen which, drcCtlyat the road
side, tumbles 500 Nork feet; and, whcl
opposite the giant Romsdal horn o
peak, near the picturesque station q
Roedningen, led by merry Lars, we tool
mountain path towards the uDllnt
Alnesdal district, still above which Lar
promised to bring me 10 some OF the
widest and loneliest saeters OF Norway
u o. ne easy task 10 climb 10 thcsl