The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-07-20

best of hotels only charge about five
kroners t$1.35) per day, and there are
plenty Of good hotels all along these post
roads. We find this an easy country to
travel in. At most every place we find
many English speaking people, SO we can
easily be understood.
We arrive at Laerdeisoren at 8 O'Clock
In the evening, having viewed the grand
est scenery in the past four. days we have
ever seen. We now take q steamer at z
O'Clock in the morning, and steam down
the Sondfiord, an arm of the sea or ocean, !
being only one hundred feet in width for !
some distance, and q thousand feet 10 |
width In other places, and with the high
high, and coming down almost perpsn-
dicular to the waters edge, makes . most
beautiful and charming ride by ship.
We leave this steamer at 1880, only
three hours and Q half ride by boat, and
again change into landaus and commence
have yet had. We 60 up through the
natural gorge. It 10 q long, deep gulch
between the high mountains. The road
Is cut out where It would seem impossible
TO have bad q wagon road or even q path
made. We ascend some three thousand
feet, aud pass waterfalls and rapids, many
OF them, and suddenly come In sight of
the "Stalheim Hotel" in the distance,
some miles off. We cross the rapidly
flowing river on 4 bridge, aud most of US
So y Wdi w Tue uiit, 40 VIC tutuA,
as II seems so steep, when We hnd 1t Is In
the shape OF an "S." We go up one side
and theu another. some twenty of these,
wheuw We get to our hotel, having come
up LOO feet ia one and one fourth miles,
or i've kilometers. As we arrived here at
! p. m, we stay for the night las we call
~, although there 10 no night here now.
1t IL daylight all the time. From our
windows we can see for miles down the
gulch, and on the edRe of the lawn, Just
surrounding our hotel, and some one
hundred feet from the hotel, we can look
over q wall OF stone built up as a fence or
protection, and can see down p~erpeudicu-
lar In one place for one thousand feet.
This Is an elegant and beautiful summer
resort, Is only q days travel from
Bergen, so we will be at Bergen tomorrow
evening, June 18th, aud when We get
there We will have travelled overland clear
across Norway, and are now come six
thousand miles from home. The hotel we
are at 10 lighted by electricity. Az Ii 10 run
all the year round, the power Is furnished
BY waterfalls close by; and while 1t Is day
time now. they have night time for three
months 10 the year, and hence need good
light during that time.
We drive from here to Vossevaugeu,
where We take the railroad to bergen.
This railroad 10 one Of the most wonder
world. 1t Is only M hundred and eight
kilometers or sixty-seveu and. one-half
miles In length. bat there are 6fty-two
tunnels to pass through. Some OF them
are nearly q mile through; others only
Q few hundred yards, but all are cut
the road. bed IL cut out of or through the
the solid granite, nearly the whole dis
lance being cuts, with high, rocky sides
or tunnels. We had the pleasure OF
standing on the rear end Of the rear car
all the way, 50 We got . fine view Of It all.
| IL WQQ GRAND tn aoo "a n akirfo1 the han r
Of one Of the Fjiords all b way, where
the water was hundreds Of feet deep right
below Us. and Just above us were the
mountains, some Thousands Of feet Ia
height, making II q grand and glorious
ride.
We arrived In Bergen at 8 p. m, June
18th, and we ind our steamer trunks In
our rooms to welcome Us. they having
been sent ahead by steamer arouud from
Christiana. We find Bergen . quaint old
city OF 5000 people, while there are som
good buildings and some very old ones
Among the latter IL one OF . former kings
palace, built In 1928, rebuilt Ia 1900, and
again rebuilt In 1870. The banquet hall ID
especially interesting, to see the many
carved figures in wood, representing
nary animals, which they paid homage te
In those days. The floor in the hall Il
put down with large wooden pegs about
an inch in diameter. We zee many ole
churches and cemeteries, many built In
} the twelfth TO fifteenth centuries. Tn,
! houses here are nearly all covered with
red thing, some Of the more modern one,
. being painted black with q pitch they
use. We drive mp the long. winding noun
tain road, some one thousand feet ahov,
the city, where we have . beautiful view
Of the city, its harbor, the ships coming II
and going out, &C., and then drive dow
: along the whsrves or quays and zee thl
ash market, where all kinds Of fsh ar
, being sold at retail; then zee them uu
loading cod liver oil and dried goldfish
! which are brought In here from furthe
{ up the coast, his being . great center TO
J. the exporting OF the oil and dried Goldfish
We leave here at 8 p. No. for the Mort
Cape on the steamer Neptune. We hav
been down and inspected her, and th
rooms we are to occupy for twelve dav
going up to the North Cape and back I
9 TrOndkjein. From here we will tax
4 carriages and drive soross Northern Nor
way. We will make numerous stops Q
many places going up, and w anticipat
J, Q grand sight when we see the beautifu
midnight sun.
You must overlook my letters being Q
!, long. However, u had the time to tax
!. from sight-seeing, ! could make thsl
I not only much more interesting, bU
{ longer. Goodbye until my next.
Very respectfully, J. c. McGREw.