YACHT VOYAGE ΤΟ NORWAY, DENMARK, AND SWEDEN. BY W. A. ROSS, ESQ. Ver erat; errabam: Zephyrus conspexit: abibam; Insequitur: fugio. OVID. Fast, IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. RIVER-TRANSIT OF TIMBER-SALMON FISHING-THE DEFEATED ANGLER-LUDICROUS ADVENTURE WITH AN EAGLE RESULT OF THE ANGLING EXPEDITION OF LADIES-NORWEGIAN THE BEVY AMUSING CUSTOMS. AT eight o'clock on Tuesday morning, the 6th, we started for Larvig. About sixty miles from Christiania, at the mouth of the Fiord, a fine, light air sprung up, and, delighted with VOL. II. B the expectation that we should reach Larvig before set of sun on Wednesday, we amused ourselves by firing at bottles thrown into the sea, and afterwards by watching the gambols of Sailor and Jacko. Sailor, stretched at full length on his back, allowed Jacko to pull his ears, and bite his claws; and mindless of the monkey's antics, seemed rather to encourage, than object to his vagaries. Wearied, at last, with his pulling, and jumping, and biting, Jacko sought a variation to his amusements, by springing on the weather runner-block, and thence depending by his tail. When Sailor perceived that Jacko had removed his gymnastics from himself, and transferred them to the block, he rose from his recumbent attitude on the deck, and, squatting on his haunches, observed, for some little time, with singular attention and silence, the extraordinary flexibility of Jacko's limbs; but at the moment when Jacko suspended his little carcase by his smaller tail from the runner-block, whether it |