Chapter XIV

A port-wine pilgrimage--The perfection of a landlady--Old
superstitious customs--Levelling effects of unlevelled roads--A
blank day--Sketch of an interior after Ostade--A would-be
resurrectionist foiled--The voices of the woods--Valuable
timber--A stingy old fellow--Unmistakeable symptoms of
civilization--Topographical memoranda--Timber-logs on
their travels--The advantages of a short cut--A rock-gorge
swallows a river--Ferry talk--Welcome--What four years can
do for the stay-at-homes--A Thelemarken manse--Spæwives--An
important day for the millers--How a tailor kept watch--The
mischievous cats--Similarity in proverbs--“The postman’s
knock”--Government patronage of humble talent--Superannuated
clergymen in Norway--Perpetual curates--Christiania
University examination--Norwegian students--The Bernadotte
dynasty--Scandinavian unity--Religious parties--Papal
propagandists at Tromsö--From fanaticism to field-sports--The
Linnæa Borealis pp. 242-276

CHAPTER XV.

Papa’s birthday--A Fellow’s sigh--To Kongsberg--A word for
waterproofs--Dram Elv--A relic of the shooting season--How
precipitous roads are formed in Norway--The author does
something eccentric--The river Lauven--Pathetic cruelty--The
silver mine at Kongsberg--A short life and not a merry
one--The silver mine on fire--A leaf out of Hannibal’s book--A
vein of pure silver--Commercial history of the Kongsberg
silver mines--Kongsberg--The silver refining works--Silver
showers--That horrid English pp. 277-296

CHAPTER XVI.

A grumble about roads--Mr. Dahl’s caravansary--“You’ve waked
me too early”--St. Halvard--Professor Munck--Book-keeping
by copper kettles--Norwegian society--Fresh milk--Talk
about the great ship--Horten the chief naval station of
Norway--The Russian Admiral--Conchology--Tönsberg the
most ancient town in Norway--Historical reminiscences--A
search for local literature--An old Norsk Patriot--Nobility
at a discount--Passport passages--Salmonia--A tale for
talkers--Agreeable meeting--The Roman Catholics in Finmark--A
deep design--Ship wrecked against a lighthouse--The courtier
check-mated pp. 297-317

THE OXONIAN IN THELEMARKEN.