23d day. Trondheim. This city was founded by Olaf Trygvesson, the first Christian king of Norway, in 996, and is the largest city in as high a latitude as 63° 25′, having about 40,000 inhabitants. The great Cathedral, where kings of Norway must be crowned, at the time of its completion, A.D. 1300, stood amongst the foremost of the cathedrals of Europe. Comparatively little of the original building now remains. Disastrous fires and less stately restoration had obliterated most of its early magnificence; but the regrowth of true patriotism in the Norwegian people during the last generation has been fruitful in good fortune for their ancient church. Careful, artistic restoration, after ages of neglect and ruin, is justifying its claim still to be the noblest, as it has always been the most venerated, of the churches of Protestant Norway. At Trondheim the traveler changes steamers and continues the sea trip to the North Cape.

24th day. Svartisen.

An enormous field of snow and ice, covering a plateau thirty-five miles in length and ten miles wide. This is the only glacier in Europe which extends its arms down to the sea. 25th day. Tromsoe. The final starting point for exploring expeditions to the polar regions, and headquarters of the arctic whalers, and seal and walrus hunters. The Museum contains interesting collections of objects contributed by arctic explorers.

26th day. Hammerfest and the North Cape. Hammerfest is the northernmost town in the world, 70° 40′ north latitude (the same as Point Barrow, the northern extremity of Alaska), and has a population of 2,100. The country around is very bleak and the hills without vegetation.

Here the sun remains above the horizon from the 13th of May to the 29th of July, and disappears entirely from the 20th of November to the 21st of January. Notwithstanding the long absence of direct sunlight, the temperature in midwinter is so mild along the coast and up the longest fjords that the waters never freeze, and sea-fishing is carried on all winter in the Hammerfest region.

26th day. The steamer passing the island of Hjelmso, the home of myriads of sea-fowl, arrives in the evening at the North Cape (969 feet), 71° 11′ N., 26° 39′ E., the goal of the voyage. The view of the cape, rising wedgelike out of the Arctic Sea, is most striking. On the summit is an Obelisk, erected to commemorate a visit of King Oscar II in 1873.

27th day. Leave the North Cape in the morning, reaching Lyngenfjord in the afternoon, where there is generally an encampment of Lapps with their herd of reindeer, forming a striking contrast to their brother nomads of the Sahara.

28th day. Pass the Lofoten Islands.

29th day. Stop at the island of Torget, associated with several Norse legends. Here is the famous Torghattan, a gigantic cave, or tunnel, 540 feet in length.

30th day. Trondheim, from which point Christiania can be reached by rail in eighteen hours and Stockholm in twenty-six hours. Leave by train for Ostersund (ten hours), a popular Swedish summer resort, and a pleasant place in which to break the journey.

31st day.

Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, reached by train in ten hours from Ostersund, is called the Venice of the North, and surely it is one of

the most beautiful cities of Europe, with its Royal Palace, Riddarholms-Kyrka, the resting place of Sweden's kings and heroes. Excursion

to Upsala, the famous university town, and to the old and very interesting town of Visby, on the island of Gotland.

34th day. Göta Canal. Leave Stockholm by steamer for a three days' trip through the famous Göta Canal to Gothenburg. The total length of this wonderful waterway is 240 miles, of which distance the greater part is natural waterway, and the rest of it canal, 56 miles. Shortly after leaving Stockholm Lake Mälar is entered. This is the third largest of the Great Lakes of Sweden, but the first in beauty. Its shores are studded with palaces and splendid villas.

35th day. Lake Vettern is entered, with water transparently clear, and the pretty villages on its borders framed in dense masses of vari-tinted foliage.

36th day. Lake Venern to Trollhättan, to view the famous Falls; arrive at Gothenburg in the evening.

37th day. Gothenburg, intersected by canals and spanned by more than thirty bridges, is a clean, bright place and a very enjoyable one. Excursion to Marstrand, a favorite place of King Oscar. 38th day. Leave by steamer in the evening for Copen

hagen.

39th day. Copenhagen. Excursion to Frederiksborg and Fredensborg.

40th day. Hamburg, via Nyborg and Vamdrup.

A Month's Carriole Tour through Western

Norway,

INCLUDING THE FINEST SCENERY IN THE COUNTRY.

1st day. Christiania, the capital of Norway. Visit the 2d "Royal Palace and the Storthings-Bygning; the

Viking Ship, a unique and deeply interesting relic of the days of the vikings, and one of the most highly prized archæological treasures of Norway. It was dug from a mound on the land of a peasant farmer at Gokstad, near Sandefjord, in 1880, where it must have lain (well preserved, too) near upon a thousand years. See the Tivoli Garden, St. Hanshaugen, Oscarshall, the Gol Church, Mount Holmenskollen, the University buildings, National Picture Gallery, etc. 3d day. Ulefos (seven hours by train from Christiania to Skien, thence two hours by steamer). See the Vrangfos, the Schaffhausen of Norway.

4th day. Dalen (six hours by steamer from Ulefos), 5th in the heart of the Telemarken. Excursion to Eidsborg to see the ancient Stave Kirke, and Ravngjuv, the most terrific precipice in Europe, 1,000 feet perpendicular.

6th day. Hotel Haukeli. About eight hours' drive, stopping at Borte for lunch.

7th day. Haukeli-Sæter (four and a half hours' drive). One of the most elevated stations in Norway, with wild and somewhat desolate scenery. Herds of reindeer may be seen in the afternoon, descending from their browsing ground to the lake.

8th day. Roldal (four hours' drive from HaukeliSæter). Descending the mountain, the wild scenery gradually gives place to wooded valleys and ravines, and at last the great Roldal Lake comes into view.

9th day. Næs. Drive from Roldal through the wonderful Bratlandsdal Valley to Næs, the gem of gems" among Norway scenery. The tourist should walk the last mile of the journey, in order to better appreciate the imposing grandeur of the scenery.

10th day. Suledal Lake. There is nothing to surpass in grandeur the imposing combination of mountain and lake scenery of Lake Suledal. The rocks rise to the height of some 2,000 feet on each side, straight out of the water, and the lake twists and turns among them, revealing a new and beautiful picture in every reach. The finest point is the famous Portal, or Gate.

11th day. Roldal. Drive back from Næs, walking the first mile of the journey.

12th day. Odda (seven hours by car from Roldal). At the head of the Sörfjord. Drive across the Horrebrækkerne, past the splendid Laatefos. The summit of the pass is 3,400 feet above the sea, and amid wild and rugged scenery the descent is made to Odda on a branch of the Hardanger Fjord.

13th day. Odda. Excursion to the Skjæggedal Falls, the European Niagara, and the most imposing falls in Norway; and to Buarbrae, an arm of the great Folgefond Glacier.

14th day. Bergen (twelve hours by steamer from Odda), 15th through the Hardanger Fjord, conceded to be the finest in Norway. The second city of Norway (for description, see page 69).