[2] I am told that these habits do not exist in good society at
Christiania.
[3] The greatest summer height of the Miösen Lake is 430 feet; the
winter height, 410. Finding the level at this time ten feet below the
mark considered as that of highest water, I considered the lake as
being now 420 feet above the sea.
[4] Laug in Norwegian signifies _water_. It is a generic term here
specially applied.
[5] See Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, September 1837, where the original
ballad is also given.