might here, with more justice than in any
thing else I ever saw of the kind, picture
to itself a heap of vast and ruined towers,
placed upon the top of a sloping bank,
“ Whose rocky summits, split and rent,
“ Formed turret, dome, or battlement;
“ Or seemed fantastically set
“ With cupola or minaret.
« Wild crests as pagod ever decked,
i( Or mosque of eastern architect. *3
The dreary solitude, and the storms and
snow of Farit, did not in the smallest degree
prevent the inhabitants from exercising their
wonted hospitality. On the contrary, the
women here, as at other places, came around
us immediately on our arrival, and with a
kindness peculiar to the sex inquired into
our wants, and offered us all that their circumstances
would enable them to afford. As
a mark of affectionate good-will, which those
most conversant with females can best appreciate,
they presented to us their little
children to be kissed, and when, as was too
often the case, our more refined notions of
cleanliness prevented us from profiting by
their intended kindness, they begged that we
would allow them to kiss our hands, which
they did in the most respectful manner,
bowing at the same time. The mothers and
the elder girls brought to our tent abundance
of cream, skiur, and fuel, and pressed us to
accept them with such evident marks of
earnestness, that it was impossible but that
the pleasure which gleamed in their countenances
should be reflected in ours, nor
could we have failed to have received with
satisfaction presents of a far less acceptable
nature than those now set before us, if offered
by people so situated, and with such
hearty good-will; for, to use the words of a
favorite poet of the present day,
“ His gift shall ne’er be scorn’d, who freely gives his all.”
Tuesday, The vain hope of being able to
August 1. s| iew t o m y frienc[s jn England some
sketches of the rocks of Farit kept me on
the spot till nine or ten o’clock this morn-
ing, and it was nearly one when we arrived
at a farm by the shores of Hval-fiord, where
a man announced himself as the servant of
the Etatsroed, and added the information
that he had been sent out the day before to