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Visit to Iceland

CHAPTER VIII
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It is strange that there are very few large towns in Norway; every peasant builds his house in the midst of his fields.
Beyond this hill the scenery grows more monotonous.

The mountains are lower, the valley narrower, and the road is enclosed by wood or rocks.
One peculiarity of Norwegian rocks is their humidity.

The water penetrates through countless fissures, but only in such small quantities as to cover the stones with a kind of veil.

When the sun shines on these wet surfaces of rock, of which there are many and large ones, they shine like mirrors.
Delemarken seems to be tolerably populous.

I often met with solitary peasant-huts in the large gloomy forests, and they gave some life to the monotonous landscape.


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