The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-01-13

tiers a similar formality must be OBJ
served. The peasant woman or the
saeter girl will run forward to meet
you, always bearing vessel of fresh
milk in her hand. You must at first
refuse with some expression or GEES
ture conveying the idea that you are
unworthy Of the attention. The wo-
man volubly insists that you must
accept her kindly Offering. Then you
take the vessel, but only the slight
est sip of milk, and return it with
further manifestations of unworthi-
ness. This enables her to further
urge and insist, whereupon you ac-
cept the civility heartily and take a
long draught You will be forum
ate traveller, then, if you are not
forced, by the woman's fears that
you are not quite sure of your well
come, to drink not pint but gal
lonl
Norway is above all else, land of
mighty waterfalls. None is so wide
or discharges such vast volume of
water as Niagara, but there are per.
haps five hundred or one thousand
that the most hurried traveller can
not fail of seeing, which are several
times higher; scores are ten times
as high; and the waters of several
have perpendicular descent of
twenty times the fall of those of our
American "thunder of waterl"
have no doubt that there are still in
UNEMPLOYED districts of this wondrous
Northland far more majestic water
falls from glacier melting heights
than have yet met the tourists won
dering or impassive gaze; for the
whole face of Norway is simply an
ice mountain rent and torn into al
most measureless assures and gorges
between which creep arms of the sea,
and into which everlastingly descend
torrents, and waterfalls from the
melting ice plateaus and mountains
above.
The most impressive waterfalls of
Norway SO far known are the Yeor-
ing fos and the Skjeggedal.fos. Both
of these are in the Hardanger dis
trict, noted also for its sublime ford
land mountain scenery, the latter
comprising the vast Folgefond or
glacier field, and its handsome, hos
pitable, picturesque and thoroughly
characteristic peasantry. The Voer-
ing fos is reached. from Vik, on the
Ed Fiord, branch of the noble
Hardanger The going and coming,
leisurely done, requires day. You
ride in the saddle to the little Clifford
are rowed upon this to the Maabo
Farm; and here other ponies are Sc
cured for long and dangerous
scramble up and down a wild and
broken mountain into the exquisite
valley of Maabo. 1t is like giant
bowl carved out Of ebony with an
emerald bottom. The sides rise
thousands of feet to fields never free
Of snow and ice. The Bjoreia river
brawls and foams through the val
ley. At one side is "a wild rayine
5000 feet deep. Into this pours the
Voerlng-ios from an altitude of 2,225
feet. The upper masses are split
and broken for 200 feet, where they
accumulate in gigantic rock basin,
and, then with added tremendous
force make their final awful plunge
for between 700 and 800 feet. Aside
from the appallingly savage sur
,roundings, and horrible roaring of
the almost rock surrounded caul-
dron, the Voering fos possesses a
weird fascination from the mighty
volume of water rebounding from the
rocky, narrow pent bottom of the
gorge in a dense column of dazzling
foam and vapor, nearly as high as
the waterfall itself.
EDGAR l.. WAKEMAN.