B o o K upon hills, and mountains towering above mountains j the fnowy
i., — „— alps doling the majedic view.
At the bottom of the defcent we eroded a lively rivulet called
Ana, came to a lake of the lame name, and took up our lodgings
at the village of Titerud, mod: delightfully lituated on the banks
of a fmall but beautiful lake, forming the calmed and lovelied
retreat I ever beheld.
In this fequedered fpot, we found, befides the rooms appropriated
to the family, two neat bed chambers for ourfelves, met
with excellent tea and fugar, butter, and cream, and fupped upon
a fine trout, weighing about fix pounds, with which fifli the lake
abounds. *
September 14. At Titerud, we quitted the mountains, and
traverfed a gently waving country, as fertile and pleafing as the
didridt of Ringerike, well cultivated and well peopled, the roads
winding through the fields like garden walks ; changed horfes at
Quickdand and Lund, and palling through a lawn planted by
the hand of nature, and which had the appearance of a park, we
reached the banks of the lake Miofs..
This lake extends from north to fouth, and is 80 Englilh miles
in circumference. It is divided by a large peninfula, and is in
general from twelve to eighteen in breadth. It contains one
illand about ten miles in circumference, fertile in corn, padure,
and wood, and fprinkled with feveral farm houfes.
The banks of the lake on the fide where we embarked, is
bounded
bounded by abrupt bleak hills, embrowned with thick and dark
groves of pine and fir, whofe gloomy afpedt reminded me, that
we were in the 6 2d degree of northern latitude, and con traded
on the oppofite fide with banks gently riling from the margin
of the water, enriched with fields of corn and padure, arid re-
fembling the fertile diftridts of a more fouthern climate; the
whole exhibiting a rugged, perfpedtive, and pidturefque wild-
nefs on one fide, and on the other, the cultivated beauties of a
milder atmofphere.
We rowed between the illand and' the peninfula, upon the
extremity of which dands Nafs, a fmall but neat village, and in
about two hours landed at Hammer, a gentleman’s feat, formerly
a large town, containing near 20.00 inhabitants..
The fiteof this once flourilhing town can now be only traced by
fome parts of the old walls, heaps of rubbilh, and the pidturefque
remains of a large cathedral, confiding of four Gothic arches,
which dand on an eminence over-looking the lake..
Having fatisfied our curiofity,. we reimbarked, rowed about
five miles to a fmall village, landed and walked to Giellum.
Here we procured horles, and continued our journey through
a lefs peopled didridt thickly drewn with foreds, ferried over
the Glomme, about as broad as the Thames at Henley. This
river receives the Worme which iffues from the lake Miofs..
We had frequent views of the Glomme, which prefented
a broad furface, fometimes watering pleafant vallies, fometimes
winding between rocky cliffs, precipitating itfelf in frequent
cataradts,,