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(1889) [MARC] Author: Karl Baedeker
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The above routes may be combined thus: 1st day. From Maalsnæs
to Øvreby or to Kongslid. 2nd day. Ascend the Rostafjeid. 3rd day.
Drive to Kirkemoen in the Bardudal. 4th day. Drive to Søveien.

Several routes lead from the Maalsdals-Élv to the Balsfjord. The
easiest (with guide) is from Olsborg, a little to the X. of the Moen station,
to Slorstenæs (1st day), from which it is possible to reach Nordkjos, at
the S.E. end of the fjord, by boat on the same day. Steamboat thence
on the Balsfjord, on the E. bank of which rise several mountains upwards
of 5000 ft. high, to Tromsø. — Instead of taking the steamer direct to
Tromsø, enterprising travellers may proceed (boat and guide not easily
procured; gnats in abundance) from Nordkjos in one day to Mulen at
the S. end of the Lyngenfjord, and row thence to (22 Kil.) ’Skibotten (good
quarters), where the Tromsø steamer calls on Thursday and Sunday.

Leaving Maalsnæs, the steamer returns to the centre of the
cross formed hy the Malangenfjord (passing the huge Bensjordtind,
4085 ft., on the right), and then steers to the X.E., skirting the
large island Kvalø on the left, into the Tromsøsund, on which lies —

50 Kil. (31 Engl. M.) Tromsø. — Hotels. Grand Hotel, r. 2’/2,
B. 1 kr. ; Hotel Xordex, well spoken of. — Telegraph Station.

British Vice-Consul, Mr. T. B. Holst. — Booksellers: Holmboe and
Nilsen. — Photographer: Vickstrøm, near the market, who sells photographs
of Lapps. — Furs (polar-bears’ skins, etc.; cheaper than in Throndjhem or
Bergen) at IF. Nielsen’s, Stor-Gade, and in several other large shops.

Steamers. Several local steamboats ply from Tromsø to the Lofoden
and Vesteraalen Islands. and to the Ulfs, Lyngen. Reisen, and Kvenang
Fjords. All the large Nordland steamers also call here. Comp.
Commvni-cationer, No. 296.

Tromsø, a town with 5900 inhab., the seat of anAmtmand and
a Bishop, picturesquely situated on the island of the same name,
and on rock of a peculiar shell-formation, lies in 09° 38’ N.
latitude. It was raised to the rank of a town in 1794, and is a busy
and gay little place, admirably adapted for a stay of some days by
way of interlude on the voyage to the North Cape. The annual
mean temperature is 353/5° Fahr., that of July 50°, and that of
January 23°, while in the interior of Finmarken the annual
temperature is 29° only and that of January 5°. In the market-place
are the Town Hall and the neat Roman Catholic Church. The
interesting Museum (Musæet; adm. 50 ø.), near the Grand Hotel,
founded in 1872, comprises an ethnographical and a natural
history department, the latter containing a good zoological
collection. Tromsø also boasts of a grammar-school, a school for teachers,
a bank, a telegraph-office, and a number of large shops. English
and German are frequently spoken. The streets are covered with
gravel and provided with side-walks. The main street, running
from N. to 8., commands a view in the one direction of the
snow-clad Skulgamtinder on the Ringvadsø and in the other of the
Bens-jordtind. The town is embellished with many mountain-ashes,
wild cherry-trees, and birches, the latter being remarkably fine.

Above the town, which stands on a slope, is a beautiful grove
of birches, where a number of villas have sprung up. From this
point we obtain a view of the Tromsdal and the Tromstind beyond
the strait towards the E.: to the S. rises the snow-clad Bensjnrd-

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