Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-12-24

ers, and others of that persuasion,
the consciences of tho Norwegians
ought never to give them q moments
ulsquletude, fer in no part of the world,
save the north coast of Lake superior,
Is there grander spectacle than in
almost any inlet on the Norway sea-
line. Some one has said all NORWAY is
but one grand mountain after another,
and to this statement any one who
sails along the coast Is forced to give
in his adhesion. 1t may also be re-
marked that the seaboard is really only
one inlet after another, for so numer-
Gus are the islands along the coast that
1t is possible in places to sail for many
miles in the narrow passa res between
islands and the main land and rarely
catch more than glimpse of the sea
without.
The islands are worthy of the name
Huge masses of rock rise from the sea,
often 5000 or 1000 feet in perpendic-
ular height; their SUBMITS have never
been trodden by the foot of man. No
attempt is ever made to ascend them,
for the difficult and dang erous task
would be utterly fruitless of re-
suit. From some of the Alpine
peaks the prospect, Tor variety and
beauty, is unsurpassed For a hun
dred miles there is an alienation of
mountain and valley, while far away
in the dim southern distance stretch
the sunny plains of Italy, dotted with
the domes and steeple5 of cities,
specked with the white marble vii as
OF the nobility and gentry. A score of
cities, every one famous in story and
song, are visible at single glance,
while the beauty of the natural feat
ures OF scenery, the scenery that Gre
ated furor of enthusiasm when point
ed out by Hannibal to his dusky war
riors from beyond the sea, and later
drove Napoleon's soldiers wild, amply
repays the fatigue and labor of the as
cent. No such compensation awaits
him who climbs peak in Norway, for
after the ascent. if it can be made at
all. he sees to the north and soutn an
endless succession of gigantic peaks
similar to the one on which he stands,
to the east are apparently boundless
table lanas, broken by an occasional
peak, while to the west is the sea that
has more than once been covered with
the sails of the Norsemen, whose
dread fame a thousand years ago
spread 50 far and wide that even in
the south of France the monks to their
daily prayers added the petition:
A furore Norman Drum LIBERIA nos, O
Domino
So nobody tries to ascend tho reaks,
and, indeed, not few are inaccessi-
Bile, having not even u landing place
for the smallest boat. Rising perpen-
dicularly from the water, their bases
have been tunneled by the busy waves
beating against them for thousands OF
years; the billows rush into the cav
erns with sound like boom of thun-
der, rush out again like pent up
flood, and with force that no boat
could withstand, so that, sometimes
for miles, no spot can be found where
even the nimbIest sailor could leap in
William Tell fashion from the boat to
the shore. But the mighty cliffs and
cone shaped rocks that rear their
heads among the clouds are not left in
solitude, even though their tops have
never been trouden by the foot oil man.
Millions of wild fowl Of every kind
have their nests among the craes, and
fly to and fro in midair, suspended far
above the range Of the sportsman's
shot. Ordinarily, almost unseen, save
FOR one sailing out or lazily returning,