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Harriet Martineau on inspirations for her story 'Feats on the Fjord': 'Mr Laing's book on Norway fell in my way, and set my imagination floating on the fjords [...] I procured Inglis's Travels and every thing that I could get hold of about the state of Norway while connected with Denmark; and hence arose "Feats on the Fjord."'