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Fishing village in Norway

Norway:
 Bergen, west from the Floifjeld, over the harbor and Puddefjord

 In the great market place of busy Bergen; from the flower market to the fish market

 The harbor, northwest from the market-place in Bergen, the greatest fish market of Norway

 Warehouses along the quay in the old town of Bergen

 Sternly picturesque old fortress (Bergenhus), seen from a square in the modern town of Bergen

 Children at play in a farmer's field before terraced Tvindefos near Vossevangen

 A log-built mill and a water-wheel grindstone on Stalheim River

 Stalheim's Hotel and its superb view through the famous Nearodal

 The zigzag mountain road up to Stalheim's Hotel on a cliff above the Naerodal

 The Sevlefos, dashing and splashing, near Stalheim's Hotel in the Naerodal Direction—North-northwest

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Norway - The Sevlefos, dashing and splashing, near Stalheim's Hotel

( Originally Published 1907 )


There is no end to the Norwegian waterfalls, but each one seems to have special beauty of its own. This particular cascade is one familiar to thousands of tourists who come to stand right where we are standing now and gaze at that never-ceasing downpour over the broken stairs.

Once down in the bottom of the valley which we saw from behind Stalheim's (at Position 55), the highway follows the crooked lead of the river along between towering walls of mountains.