The traveller is told that the horse has to be fetched from the mountain, and that he can be served in one and a half or two hours.

Thus he rides one hour, and waits two.

It is also necessary to keep the tariff, as every trifle, the saddle, the carriage, the harness, fetching the horse, the boat, &c., has to be paid for extra; and when the traveller does not know the fixed prices, he is certain to be dreadfully imposed upon.

At every station a book lies, containing the legal prices; but it is written in the language of the district, and utterly unintelligible to the stranger.

Into this book, which is examined by the judge of the district every month, one may enter complaints against the peasant or publican; but they do not seem to fear it, for the guide who accompanied me to the fall of Rykanfoss endeavoured to cheat me twice in the most barefaced manner, by charging me six-fold for the use of the saddles and the fetching of the horse.