The knarr (plural: knarren) was the generic name for viking trade and mercantile ships. Typically they were broader in the beam and had a deeper draught than the vessels used for raiding, the longships. They were also less reliant on oars as a means of propulsion and more on the use of sails.
world.html">world opened upon his awed vision, and the pyramid of the summit stood up
obtained. This modern experiment of putting us through the world--the
doubtful expediency.
I cannot but think that the White Mountains are cheapened a little by the
entertainment. If scenery were a sentient thing, it might feel indignant
tourists who chiefly value luxurious hotels.html">hotels and easy conveyance. It
about the quality of the tables and the beds, and the rapidity with which
nature.html">nature.html">nature. The mountain, however, was made for man.html">man.html">man, and not man for the
what they are capable of receiving, it may be some satisfaction to the
appreciate them. Perhaps nature is not sensitive about being run after
catastrophe, a few years ago, in the Franconia Notch flume. Everybody
narrow canon.html">canon. This curiosity attracted annually thousands of people, who
And one day, as if tired of this misdirected adoration, nature organized
suddenly let loose a flood which tore open the canon, carried the bowlder
must look at me, and not at my trivial accidents. But man is an
increasing number, to see where the bowlder once hung, and spends his
satisfy reasonable human curiosity, the proprietors of the flume have
formerly the shrine of pilgrimage.
In his college days King had more than once tramped all over this region,
living on viands that would kill any but a robust climber, and enjoying
and enabled to surprise Nature in all her varied moods. It is the chance
him who approaches her of set purpose at fixed hours. He remembered also
the drive, the excitement of the arrival at the hotels, the sociability
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