Perpetual Daylight In Norway

The further riorth you go in voyiigiug along the Norwegian ooast, during the monthg of June and July, the brightur and longer bicornes tho dnylight, aod at last you arrive at the región of per petual day. The exquisite charms of this novel state of thiugs in utterly beyond the comprehension of those who have not experienced it. Apart altogether from the gladdening influence of sunshine, there issomethiug deliglitfully reekless in the feeling that there is no neeessity whatever for takiag note of the flight of time - no fear lest we should, while wandering together, or perchance, alone, among the mouutaius, be ovortaken by night. Duriug several weeks we lived in the blaze of a long nigktless day. I do not use hyperbolical ianguago when speaking oí this perpetual daylight. Duritig severai weeks, alter we had crossed the aretic circle, the sun descended little moro than its own diameter below the horizon each night, so that it had soarcely set wheu it rose again, and the diminution of the light was quite insignificant ; it did not approach in the slightest degreo to twilight. If I had been suddenly awakened du'ing any of the tvventy-four hours, in the cabin of the yacht, or in any place from which it was impossible to observe the pnsition of the siin, I could not have told whether it was night or day. Having Raid that, it is altnost su perfluous to add thal we eould even iu the oabiu read the siniillnst print at midnight as easy as noon day. Moroover, a olear rnidnight was abeolutely brighter than a cloudy (orenoon. Nevertheless, there was a distinct difference between night and day - a differenoe with which light had nothing to do. I am inclined to thiuk that the in calculable rnyriiids of mioute, invisible creatures with whicb God has filled the solitudes of this world, even nioio largely than inhabited parts, cxeroÍ8e a rnuuh more powerful iufluence upon our seDses than wo suppoae. During the j day-time these teeming millious, 1 ling aboat in the sotivit of their tiny ! I sphfrea, créate an actual, though unrecognizuble noise. I do not refer to gnats and flies so much as to tliosc atornic inseetí vphose little persons are never seen, and whose individual volees are never heard, but whose collective hum is a fuct ttiat ia best proved by the silence that fullows its ceasation. ín the eveuing theso all retire to rest, and night s muí ked by a doop impressive stillness, which we ara apt emmeously to suppoáe is altegether the result ul that noisy giant man having botuken himaelf to his luir Yet the diöl-rence between uightand day Was only noticuable when we were alone, or very quiet ; the preponderating noiaes reauiting from conversatioo or wulking were more than sufficiunt to dispel tho bweet intíuence. We were often very wrong in our ideas oí timo. Once or twice, on land ing and going into a hamlet on the coast, we have been isuch eurprised to find the deepest iileoos reigniug every where, and, on peeping in at a window, to observe that the inhabitants wore all abed, while thu sun was blaziug bigh iu the heavens. Sometiines, too, on returniug from a shooting or flshine expedition, I have seen a bush or trea i'ull ofsmall birds, eaoh standing on one leg, with his head thrn.st under il wiog and ita round little body puffed up to nearly twice its uSual size, and I have tbus been reminded that the hours for rest h:id returned. Of course, a litt'e observation and reflection would at any time have cleared up our minde aa to whether day or nigbt was on the wing j noverthelesa, I state the simple iruth when I say we were often much perplexed, and soinetimes ludicrously deceived, bv the couversion of night to day.