egeberg

Updated: May 23, 2025

An abundance of trees enliven the view, plane, sycamore, ash, and elm, in luxurious condition. Warmer skies during the summer period are not to be found in Italy, nor elsewhere outside of Egypt. As we stand upon the height of Egeberg on a delicious sunny afternoon, there hangs over and about the Norwegian capital a soft golden haze such as lingers in August above the Venetian lagoons.

Maturin Murray Ballou - Foot-prints of Travel: or, Journeyings in Many Lands

While enjoying a bird's-eye view of Christiania, from the heights of Egeberg, a well-wooded hill in the southern suburb, it is difficult to believe one's self in Icelandic Scandinavia, the precise latitude of the Shetland Islands. A drowsy hum like the drone of bees seems to float up from the busy city below.

Maturin Murray Ballou - Foot-prints of Travel: or, Journeyings in Many Lands