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aas (1130 ft.) to the W. may be ascended. It then crosses a wooden
viaduct, 90 ft. high, and reaches —
23 Kil. Asker (340 ft.), from which the Vardekolle (1140 ft.), a
massive hill of granite to the S.W., may be ascended for the sake
of the view.
The train skirts the foot of the Vardekolle and passes the small
lakes Bondivand (325 ft.; the property of an English
ice-exporting company) and Gjellummnd (315 ft.). At the 8. end of the
latter is (29 Kil.) Heggedal, beyond which we pass the base of the
barren Brejmaas.
Beyond (34 Kil.) Reken (440 ft.) the train turns abruptly to the
\vl traversing an uninteresting region and passing through
numerous cuttings; but immediately beyond a tunnel, 240 yds. long, which
penetrates the hilly barrier, a most picturesque and imposing *Vikw.
of the Drammens-Fjord, the town of Drammen, and the fertile
valley of the Lier is suddenly disclosed to the left, rivalling the
famous views from C’hexbres above Vevey or from Optschina above
Trieste. The road from Reken to Drammen descends at once to the
fjord, while the railway passes through another tunnel and
describes a long curve towards the N., descending gradually to the
valley of Lier and the (46 Kil.) station of that name.
From (Lier a pleasant route, with ‘fast’ skyds-stations, leads to the
FT., on the E. side of the valley, past the Engerfjeld, to the Holsfjord, the
S. branch of the Tyrifjord (p." 14). S Kil. Enger. The road . now called
” Svangstrands-Veien. and famed for its picturesque heauty, next ascends
the Burderaas and skirts the Holsfjord, at a giddy height above it, to
fl3 Kil.) Humledal (p. 11).
At Lier the train turns towards the S., traversing a fertile
tract, and next stops at (51 Kil.) Bragere, the E. end of Drammen
(Bragernæs); it then crosses the Drammens-Elv, and the island of
Mellerholm or ‘Holmen’ with its timber-yards, to the Tangen and
Stremse quarters, on the S. bank of the river, and reaches the
principal station of (53 Kil.) Drammen, situated at the W. end of
Stremse, close to the bridge across the Drammens-Elv. This is the
junction of the lines to Hougsund (carriages changed; p. 18) and
to Laurvik and Skien (p. 31).
Drammen. — In Strømsø: ’Central Hotel, opposite the station,
entrance in a side-street, with restaurant. B. 80 0., D. 2 kr., A. 40 0.;
Britannia, in the Frem-Gade, leading E. to Tangen. — In Bragernæs: ’Hotel
Kong Carl, in the Stor-Gade, near the market-place. — ”Railway
Restaurant (cold viands only).
Cab with one horse, for 1 person 40 ø. per drive; with two horses
for 2 persons 60 0. — Omnibus from Bragernæs-Torv to Tangen.
Sommerfryd-Budeanstall, on the E. side of Bragernæs, at the end of
Erik-Børresens-Oaden. near the fire-engine station; River Baths (Strømbad)
at Bragernaes.
British Vice-Consul, Fir. Karl Gram.
Steamboats to Holmestrand, Horten, and Floss daily; to Tønsberg
and Sandefjord once weekly; to Liverpool once monthly.
Drammen, with 20.000 inhab., situated on both banks of the
Drammenselv, consists of Bragernæs on the N. bank (rebuilt after
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