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SIXTY YEARS AGO 185When wind and rain kick up a rowA favourable place art thou.Scarce was this piteous fact perceivedWhen with umbrellas spreadAnd for our lives we ran.Forgot were hatred, wrongs and fears,The splashing rain above appearsSoaking the outer man.Our only solace was the canTo soak the inner man.A. J. Menzies Esquire with sister, cousin and two brothers, one aminister, visited this chaiming spot on Sept. 5th, 1872.It is desirable not to visit this place without a portmanteau andtourists would do well always to bring one. It helps to steady one whenwalking up Styhead pass, and by sitting on it and sliding down on theother side, the descent can be much more rapidly made. A gentlemanwho was here in company with his portmanteau enjoyed not only theseadvantages, but also that of showing to the inhabitants of this remotedistrict the pleasing spectacle of an elegant evening costume !This is the experience ofMiss Jeanie Menzies, Hoddam Manse, Ecclefecban andMiss Menzies, Woodslee, Penicuik who sat on theportmanteau (don't believe it ? ? ?)Also The Revd. Allan Menzies B.D.The Revd. The Minister of BalfronCharles D. Menzies LondonA. H. Ballingall, Perth, he of the portmanteauA. J. Menzies, Edinburgh, vide supraWe are VII.Also Sept. 17th and 19th.—21st., 1872.Sept. 21st, 1872, a glorious autumn day.A notable exception to the general run of entries, at leastfrom the rock-climbers' point of view, is the following entrywith which we must close this note.W. M. Pendleburv, Josiah Hosking 1 _ . ,R. \Fredk. Gardner jLlver P° o1 -Hy. B. Priest, Birkenhead.Sept. 22 Ascended the Pillar Stone to-day, andyesterday crossed Micklcdore Gap andascended Broad Stand on Scawfell.
THE ROMSDAL 187which are strewn over the tops of Scafell Pike and the Glyddrs—every Jotunheim Pass and every hogsback ridge is covered withthem; ore the natives call them, and ora pro nobis we chantedover them. We had lived at those old cattle sabers high amongthe hills, where generations of peasants have squatted throughthe summer, log cabins which are now being turned into touristhuts to accommodate the enthusiastic Norwegian hikers. Wehad had marvellous days, too, when swirling curtains of cloudcleared off suddenly and you saw distant rock peaks, their wetribs and faces shining like jet and casting sapphire shadowson the snowfields below ; when suddenly little tarns emergedfrom nowhere and seemed to hang for a moment among the mistslike plates of blue-green lustre, hang there and then suddenlyfit into the landscape, greener than ever against the snow andthe long views of purple or yellow ochre hills beyond. I amnot exaggerating, however, when I say that we had not seena single cultivated field or lush pasture since we walked up toTurtagro from the Sognef jord; not one, until the evening weleft the Jotunheim, descending to Roisheim after a day ofbrilliant sunshine and views on the tourist-ridden snows ofthe Galdhoppiggen. Roisheim was a real valley village in areal valley bottom, cut up into patches of arable and grass.Coming down from the mountain we saw its fields enamelledin the evening light. There were real farms, the old ones ofbeautifully browned squared logs, the new ones of dressed planks,rather dolls'-house looking. Next morning a motor-bus took us torailhead at Otta, in the Gudbrandsdal.It was a grilling afternoon in the train and very enjoyable tosit and frizzle for a while. In the wide reach of the valley,where the hills roll backward and upward on either hand,thunderclouds were drooping and the colour was intense,browns and velvety indigos on the hills and gleaming yellowishgreens on the grassy meadows. The hay was all cut, and theneat farms stood serenely just on the first slopes of the hills. AtDombaas, where the lines for the Romsdal and Trondheimbranch, we had time to eat surprising sandwiches in the stationbuffet and then we entered the Romsdal proper. Themetals descended in loops and curves, slung along the hillsidesat dizzy heights. Now, we were travelling in our true direction,then a tunnel, and emerging we found that with nightmare
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