B OQ K fides o f the rocks; and feveral flocks o f iheep were pailuring in
C.— 1 the vallies, among which a great many were black.
In thefe parts the price of a milch cow is from feven to nine
rix-dollars, £ . i. Sr. to £ . i. i6x. and in winter, when fodder is.
fearce and dear, one may be purchafed for 16 s. We met during
this day’s journey feveral droves of bullocks and horfes driving
for fale to ChrilHania. The bullocks fell from ¿f. 2 to 2. 8r.
per head; and the horfes which are from thirteen to fourteen
hands high, and remarkably ailive and lively, from 4 to.
£ .8 apiece.
We next reached Gran or Granewolden, Handing on an eminence'
riling in the midll of an extenfive plain, looking down
upon feveral conical rocks, covered with firs, and remarkable for
its two churches in the fame church-yard, called the two fillers,
Thefe buildings feem of the fame date, and at a fmall dillance
nearly refemble each other. One is built of itone, the other ia
whitewalhed. In one dedicated to the Virgin divine iervice is
performed only in Lent; in the other, facred to St. Nicholas,
during the remainder of the year. I could not learn by whom,
or at what period, thefe twin churches were built.
The ftony roads having lhattered the wheels of my cart, we
flopped for the purpofe of having it repaired at Dahlin, near the
northern extremity of the Rands-Sion, backed by a well cultivated
and well inhabited mountain.
This part of Norway is greatly infefted with wolves and bears.
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The latter do the moll harm, not only in killing the cattle, but
alfo by deftroying the corn. The inftances are very rare, which
will induce them to attack the human fpecies.
The ihepherds are ufually followed by large dogs of the Newfoundland
fpecies, armed with collars of iron fpikes, in order to
preferve them againft the wolves, who frequently attack them,
and endeavour to leize them by the neck. The bears ufually fly
from them. .
The roads of Norway had hitherto appeared to us, long ufed to
the Swediih roads, exceedingly rugged, and fcarcely paflable with
carriages, 2nd both my companion and I had been occafionally
overturned; but the road we now pafled over mount Kiolway
was fo execrable, that the others were in companion fuperex-
cellent. I much queftion indeed if any cart had ever pafled
before we ventured to traverfe it; We afcended about four
Engliftt miles, and then defcended about the fame diftance, and
were obliged to difmount and fupport our carriages, in order to
prevent them from over-fetting, which, notwithftanding all our
precautions, occafionally happened. During the firft part of the
way we pafled a few cottages; but further on all was wild and
uninhabitable, rocks clothed with pines and firs, a dreary but
fublime fcenery, commanding from the fummit a moil extenfive
profpedl j to the fouth of the delightful country we had traverfed
in our way to Dahlin, the Rands-Sion appearing like a broad river
winding among the gloomy rocks; and to the north, hills piled
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