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(1889) [MARC] Author: Karl Baedeker
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height), which is known as the LVorske Hest’ and contains
upwards of 1000 sheep. On leaving Præstø the steamer traverses the
Granesund (with the Atleø on the left) and the Stangfjord, passes
Stavnas, the westernmost promontory of Norway, and reaches the
Stavfjord, which forms the entrance to the Førdefjord. The steamer
that touches at Varø skirts the E. side of the island of Aldeu and
steers thence to the Stavfjord. „

The Dalsfjobd and Førdefjord are traversed twice weekly by a
steamer from Bergen, taking 3 days to the voyage there and back (see the
Communicationer, No. 252 C). A local steamer also plies weekly from
Florø (see below) to Førde (see Communicationer, No. 252 D).

The Dalsfjord (in ’Søndfjord", not to be confounded with the arm of
the Voldenfjord, p. 170) runs inland for a distance of 40Kil. (25 Engl. 51.).
In 874 this was the starting-point of the Norwegians who settled Iceland,
which had been discovered in the previous century. At the entrance rises
the massive Atleø (2280ft.). The steamer calls at Strømsnæs and Dale (sInn),
which lies on the S. side, about halfway up the fjord. Above Dale rise
the Dalshest (2320 ft.) and the dome-shaped Kringlen (2435 ft.). Farther on
are the Løkelandshetl (2625 ft.), behind which rises the flat and generally
snow-clad Blejan (-mantle’; 4320 ft.), and the imposing Kvamshetl (4070 ft.;
p. 180). The last steamboat-station on the fjord is Sveen (good quarters),
near the E. end . from which a hilly road leads to (11 Kil.) Langeland
and (11 Kil.) Førde (p.180). About i Kil. beyond Sveen is Osen, whence
a road leads to Sande (p. 179).

The Førdefjord, 30 Kil. (19 31.) in length, though less striking than
the Dalsfjord, also abounds in bold mountain-scenery. The most
important place is Xaustdal on the N. bank. At the end of the fjord rises
the majestic Kvamshest, at the foot of which lies the skyds-station Førde,
whence we mav drive to Mo and Nedre Vatenden on the Jølstervand

(p. 181).

78 Kil. (49 Engl. M.) Florø (Hilmer s Hotel;
telegraph-station), an island between the Søndfjord and Nordfjord, is an
important station, being touched at by some of the direct steamers
to and from Molde and Jhrondhjem, an<i ais0 by the Søndfjord and
Nordfjord steamers. This station, which has rapidly assumed the
dimensions of a small town (600inhab.), forms the E. focus of the
traffic of the Nordals, Eike, and Hødals fjords, and partly owes its
prosperity to its former success in the herring-fishery. On a
solitary rocky islet to the W. of Florø is the Stabhensfyr (lighthouse).

The coasting steamers, which now run between the mainland
and the belt of islands, next tonch either at Kallevaag on the island
of Frøjen or at Berdle on the large island of Bremanger, which lies
at the mouth of the Nordfjord. At the E. end of the island is the
perpendicular and apparently overhanging *Horntlen (2940 ft.),
rising immediately from the water. An attendant of Olaf
Trygg-vason (end of the 10th cent.) is said once to have attempted to
scale this mountain and to have been rescued by the king
himself from imminent peril. The Florø steamer stops on Frid. at
Kjelkenes i Gulen. From this point we may go by boat to Rise (good
accommodation) on the Nordgulen, whence a wild route leads to
the Aulfoien Fjord (p. 108). The ascent of the Kjeipen (4460 ft.),
at the S. base of which lies the Storebolnvand. one of the wildest
lakes In Norway, is interesting. Slrømsbolten, on the S. verge of

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