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by means of a navigable river — with the head of the Skien Fjord.
A fall of 50 ft. is overcome by means of two locks in Skien and
four at Løveid. The canal was opened for traffic in 1861. The
expenses of making it amounted to about kr. 1,000,000.

View from Vrangfos.

The Bandak—Nordsjø Canal connects Nordsjø with the
Bandak Lakes, and thereby opens up an inland water-way 65 miles
in length, from the sea at Skien into the very heart of the
mountains at Dalen, at the west end of Lake Bandak. The height of
this lake above the level of Nordsjø is 187 ft. The fall in the
river is overcome by means of 14 locks, 5 of which are at
Vrangfos. The rise in each lock is, on an average, rather more than
13 ft. The canal was made in the years 1887—92; the cost of
making it amounted to about three million kroner. It runs
through a region of great natural beauty and presents more points
of interest than any other line of artificial water-way in
Scandinavia. Vrangfos especially, both as regards scenery and

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