half past five
in the afternoon
Mr. Bennett had provided the necessary tickets , and made the arrangements for the excursion . It is certainly a very pretty place , but there are a hundred country residences in the vicinity of New York , Boston , or any other large city of the United States , which excel it in beauty and elegance , as well as in the expense lavished upon them . Before returning to the anchorage , the boat squadron pulled about for a couple of hours among the beautiful islands , and when the students returned to the fleet , they felt that they had about exhausted Christiania and its environs . The next day they went by the railroad train to Eidsvold , and there embarked in the steamer Kong Oscar for a voyage of sixty-five miles up the Mjosen Lake to Lillehammer , where they arrived at half past five in the afternoon . The scenery of the lake is pleasant , but not grand , the slope of the hills being covered with farms . Near the upper end , the hills are higher , and the aspect is more picturesque . Some of the western boys thought it looked like the shores of the Ohio River , others compared it with the Delaware , and a New Hampshire youth considered it more like Lake Winnipiseogee .