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Rh of island-rocks in all their fantastic and variegated forms. The sun gradually hid itself behind those mountains after 10 and the glow of the sunset still rested in the western sky at 11  when we went to bed. I could not sleep for some hours, the twilight shone through my cabin window; and while I was still trying to compose myself to sleep at about 2 o'clock, I saw the eastern sky all aglow with the beams of the rising sun!

1st August. We came to the famous glacier of Svartsen this morning. This is one of the finest and largest glaciers in Europe, being no less than 80 miles long! It is in fact a river of ice hanging on the tops of hills and slowly running into the sea. We landed here and walked over the glacier as far as we could.

A little after 2 we crossed the Arctic Circle and came back into the temperate zone. In the evenings we saw another pretty fiord, and then we passed by the Seven Sisters which we had visited before on our way up.

2nd August. We reached Trondjem this afternoon after a tour of 8 days in the "Capella." During these 8 days we had travelled 8 degrees, from 63 degrees to 71 degrees north latitude, and back again; and as I have said before, we had not, during all these days, had night's darkness for a single hour.

The town of Trondjem is famous for its ancient Cathedral built in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries of the Christian Era, over the site of St. Olaf's grave. Crowds of