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two or three steamboat lines to foreign ports, particularly to obtain
rapid postal communication, e.g. Kristiansand and Fredrikshavn.
Jutland (daily), and Bergen and Newcastle (3 times a week). The
intention of encouraging export has of course something to do
with this also, and is the only object of the third
government-supported route — from the north and west of Norway to the
Mediterranean. At the present time, about half a million kroner
is paid for the conveyance of mails, and the support of these three
routes to foreign ports. The total government grant for steamboat
communication thus amounts to almost 2 ½ million kroner, rather
more than half of this being for the conveyance of mails.
Tn all these sums the grant to steamers on lakes is also included.
Of late years, the rich and varied scenery of Norway has
attracted an ever-increasing number of pleasure-seekers to the country,
chiefly in the months of July and August. Their number has been
estimated at 13,569 in 1886, 15.747 in 1887, 16,776 in 1888, 23,403
in 1890 and 27,138 in 1895. Englishmen and Swedes were most
largely represented. The profit they bring to the country was
estimated at 5 million kr. in 1886, and for 1895 may be put at 7 or 8 million.
The means of communication, steamers, railways, driving roads,
mountain roads, etc. that will give tourists the best return for
their outlay, will be found fully detailed in the ordinary
guidebooks. (Baedeker. Norway, Sweden and Denmark. 7 ed. Leipsic [[** sic]]
1899; Cook’s Guide to Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. 3 ed. London
1899; Murray. Handbook for Travellers in Norway. 9 ed.
London 1897; Y. Nielsen. Reisehaandbog over Norge. 9 Udg.
Kristiania 1899; Meyers Reisebücher. Norwegen, Schweden u. Dänemark.
7 Aufl. Leipzig 1899; Thomas S. Wilson. The Handy Guide to
Norway. 4 ed. London 1898).
The authorities publish a weekly time-table — «Norges
Communicationer» — containing the principal railway and steamboat
routes.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Angaaende en Plan for Kommunikationsvæsenet (Kommunikationskommissionens
Indstilling. Sth. Forh. 1886. 2 D. c).
Joh. Skougaard. Det norske Veivæsens Historie med Oversigt over Statens
Veivæsens Virksomhed i Tidsrummet 1820—1896. Kristiania 1899.
Forhandlinger og Aktstykker vedkommende de norske Jernbaner. I—XII.
Kristiania 1875—82, 1896.
Kanalvæsenets Historie. Udarbeidet af Kanalkontoret. I—IX. Kristiania
1881—88.
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