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entirely obliterated, were now undergoing restoration.
A great part was already finished, and reflected
much credit on the native workmen employed
upon it. The interior was also under repair,
which made it necessary that divine service, for a
time, should be discontinued. It is still considerably
the finest building in Norway—I believe I may
say in the north of Europe, if Russia be excepted.
I t was built in the tenth or eleventh century, and
the architecture is a mixture of Saxon and Gothic,
both, hoAvever, greatly injured and defaced by modern
repairs. It was once the principal resort of
pilgrims in the north. The annexed print is from
a sketch I took from a point of vieAV recommended
to me as the best by Mr. Knudtzon; and on looking
at De Capell Brooke’s print on my return, I
see that Ave must both have sketched it from very
nearly the same spot.
The caulking of the yacht, and other repairs,
owing to the badness of the weather which still
continued, and I suspect also the inexpertness of
the artificers, went on slowly enough, so that it Avas
not until the 16th of July th a t we were enabled to
get under weigh for Iceland. Happily we did so
at length in the afternoon of that day, with the
wind hoAvever nearly a-head, and consequently
we made but little progress ; but on the following
day it shifted about a point in our favour. We
Avere advised to proceed to the coast down a different
fiord from that we had come up, and instead of prol
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