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116 Finmarkens Amt.
amtmanden og Biskopen. Tromsø er bekjendt, for sin
smukke Beliggenhed paa den låve, frugtbare 0, hvis
Vegetation og mange net bebyggede Landsteder staar
i behagelig Modsætning til den omgivende Ramme af
vilde og høie Fjelde.
143. Paa Hindøen ligger Tliroiideiiæg Præstegaard,
forhen Trandarnæs, nu almindelig kaldet Tronæs, der
i Middelalderen havde mægtige Beboere. Gaarden
har en smuk Beliggenhed paa Hindøens Nordostside,
og paa dens Grund staar Sognets og hele Finmarkens
anseligste Kirke, en mærkelig Stenbygning, der skal
være over 1000 Aar gammel; den har forhen havt 3
Taarne, men har nu intet. I sine tre Altertavler har
den smukke Minder fra Middelalderens
Billedhugger-og Malerkunst.
Finmarkens Amt.
Finmarkens Amt bestaar af Alten, Hammerfest,
Tanen, Vardø og Varanger (ca. 20,000 Indb.). Amtets
Folkemængde bestaar af IS ordmænd, Lapper, Kvæner
og saakaldet „Blandingsfolk" og har i de senere Aar
gaaet stærkt fremad. — Naar man er kommen over den
brede Munding af Kvænangen/jorden i Tromsø Amt,
passerer man den yderste Odde, Brynilden kaldet, af
den ved Alteidet afskaarne Halvø, og befinder sig nu
i Finmarkens Amt. Man vil dog forgjæves se sig om
efter nogen Afvexling i Naturen. Saadanne Tinder,
Nordland.
rise with it, and in this wise some have been saved
from the jaws of death."
441. Svolvær is a important „Fiskevær"
(Fish-marked) in Lofoten, with agreable environs.
Tromsö Amt.
Tromsö Amt consist of Senjen and Tromsö (circa
50,000 inhabitans) and may be characterised
generally as an Alpine region, — the mainland no less than
the large and smaller islands, which, like a bulwark,
protect this province against the fury of the ocean, —
being well nigh covered with jagged, preciptious peaks,
that, sometimes collected into groups, sometimes
towering aloft in solitary grandeur, are cut off one from
the other by deep and narrow ravines. The vegetation
here, truly remarkable for so high a degree of latitude,
and which clothes every valley, glen, and mountain
slope — many of the latter being verdant to their very
summits — presents a striking contrast to the rugged
outlines of the fjelds; and the scenery thus produced
is unmatched in grandeur and variety in any of the
southern districts hitherto frequented by tourists. The
forest belt — the growth consists principally of
folifer-ous trees, chiefly birch; there is but little fir—attains
an attitude in the interior of the Amt of 1,800 feet,
whereas on the coast, the extreme limit is from 900
to 1,000 feet above the level of the sea.
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