CHAPTER XXX.

A TRIP TO THE VÖRING-FOSS.

Parting View of Bergen--Lovely Scenery--Interested Kindness--The

Roads of Norway--Uncomfortable Quarters--Voyage on the Osterfjord

--Bolstadören--Swindling Postillions--Arrival at Vossevangen--

Morning Scenery--Agriculture in Norway--Destruction of the Forests

--Descent to Vasenden--A Captain on Leave--Crossing the Fjeld--The

Shores of Ulvik--Hardanger Scenery--Angling and Anglers--Pedar

Halstensen--National Song of Norway--Sæbö--A stupendous Defile

--Ascent of the Fjeld--Plateau of the Hardanger--The Vöring-Foss

--Its Grandeur--A Sæter Hut--Wonderful Wine. 341

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