About four o'clock
The lake is dotted here and there with small islands , some absolutely devoid of vegetation , others covered with verdure through which peep a few fishermen 's huts . Upon the lake , too , may be seen floating countless logs not yet sold to the saw-mills in the neighborhood . This sight led Sylvius Hogg to jestingly remark -- and he certainly must have been in a mood for jesting : `` If our lakes are the eyes of Norway , as our poets pretend , it must be admitted that poor Norway has more than one beam in her eye , as the Bible says . '' About four o'clock the boat reached Tinoset , one of the most primitive of hamlets . Still that mattered little , as Sylvius Hogg had no intention of remaining there even for an hour . As he had prophesied to Joel , a vehicle was awaiting them on the shore , for having decided upon this journey several weeks before , he had written to Mr. Benett , of Christiania , requesting him to provide the means of making it with the least possible fatigue and delay , which explains the fact that a comfortable carriage was in attendance , with its box well stocked with eatables , thus enabling the party to dispense with the stale eggs and sour milk with which travelers are usually regaled in the hamlets of the Telemark . Tinoset is situated near the end of Lake Tinn , and here the Maan plunges majestically into the valley below , where it resumes its former course .