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Beyond Trollhättan the train crosses the Göta-Elf and reaches —
82 Kil. (51 M.) Öxnered (Hotel, adjoining the station), the
junction of the Bergslagsbana. which goes on to Mellerud, Kil, and
Falun (see p. 364), with the Uddevalla and Venersborg line.
Passengers for Venersborg change carriages here.
From Öxnered to Uddevalla. 23 Kil. (14½ Engl. M.), in 1¾ hr. —
6 Kil. Grunnebo; 9 Kil. Ryr; 15 Kil. Engebacken.
23 Kil. Uddevalla (Uddevalla Hotel; Liljewalch’s Hotel; Hôtel Norden).
a busy trading town, with 7500 inhab., prettily situated on the Bufjord.
Pleasant walks in the environs. The Skansberg is the best point of view.
The Kapellbackar (200 ft.), to the S., are famed for their fossils. In
the vicinity is Gustafsberg, a pleasant watering-place. — From Uddevalla
we may proceed by steamer to Gothenburg, or to the N. to Strömstad
and Fredrikshald (p. 282). Comp. the ‘Kommunikationer’.
If we do not catch a train from Öxnered to Venershorg (4 Kil.)
we may take a carriage. The railway and the road both cross the
Vassbotten, a small bay of Lake Venern.
84 Kil. (52½ M.) Venersborg (*Stadshuset; Hôtel Victoria), a
town with 5300 inhab., at the S. end of Lake Venern, lies at the
point where the Göta-Elf emerges from the lake, and is entirely
surrounded with water. On the E. side are the lake and the river,
and on the W. side the Vassbotten, which the canal called the
Karlsgraf connects with the river. On the E. side the Göta-Elf is
crossed by the Rånnumsbro and an iron bridge over the Hufvudnäs
Fall; on the W. side the Dalbobro, a stone bridge, crosses the
lake to Dal; and towards the S. the Gropbro, constructed in 1642,
crosses the Karlsgraf. The town has frequently been burned down,
and now consists of unusually spacious streets. Extensive marketplace.
The Kasan is a favourite pleasure-resort, with a theatre
and garden. No fewer than sixty steamboats maintain communication
between Venersborg and Gothenburg, Stockholm, the towns
on Lake Venern, and the canals diverging from the lake. The most
important of these, after the Göta Canal, is the Dalslands Canal (p. 279).
Lake Venern, an immense sheet of water (100 Engl. M. long;
50 M. wide between Åmål and Mariestad; about 2290 Engl. sq. M. in
area; 140 ft. above the sea-level), where storms not unfrequently
impede the navigation, forms an inland sea into which fall most
of the rivers of Vester-Götland and Vermland, including the
Klar-Elf, one of the largest rivers in Scandinavia. These rivers,
which frequently expand into the long lakes so characteristic of
the Scandinavian peninsula, traverse vast tracts of forest, and
afford easy and natural routes for the transport of timber to the
lake, whence the Göta-Elf conveys it to the coast.
On the left bank of the Göta-Elf, to the S.E. of Venershorg,
rise the steep and wooded Halleberg (485 ft. : with an ‘Ättestupa’,
p. 384), and the Hunneberg (490 ft.), both with lakes and moors
on their plateaux and pretty views from their slopes. The Halleberg
is best ascended by the good road from Lilleskog (p. 294).
The Hunneberg is ascended from Venershorg viâ (8 Kil.) Nygård.
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