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A SUMMER HOLIDAY IN SCANDINAVIA.

A SUMMER HOLIDAY

IN

SCANDINAVIA.

BY

E. LESTER LINDEN ARNOLD.

WITH A PREFACE BY

EDWIN ARNOLD, M.A., C.S.I., F.R.G.S.

LONDON:

SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE & RIVINGTON,
CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET.

1877.

(All rights reserved.)

203. f. 575.

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PREFACE.

THE narrative which my eldest son has written in the following pages, describes faithfully-and I think not without interest -the stages, scenery, and incidents of one of the most delightful little journeys that I remember to have made in the course of many experiences of travel. Norway is a country which all lovers of Nature should certainly visit; and if they once go there it is likely that they will return. Everybody is familiar, by description or pictures, with the rugged grandeur of its mountain chains, its fiords, and its forests of fir and birch; but what we were not so well prepared for,

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