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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 546 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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DRAMMEN , a seaport of See also:

Norway, in Buskerud and Jarlsberg-See also:

LAURVIK, LARVIK

Laurvik amter (counties), at the See also:

head of Drammen See also:

FJORD, or FIORD

Fjord, a western See also:

ARM (a common Teutonic word; the Indo-European root is ar, to join or fit; cf. the Lat. armus, shoulder, and the plural word arma, weapons, Gr. apphs, joint, and the reduplicated apapilKSV, to join)

arm of See also:

CHRISTIANIA (officially KRISTIANIA)

Christiania Fjord, 33 M. by See also:

RAIL

rail S.W. from Christiania. Pop. (19oo) 23,093. Its situation, at the mouth of the broad Drammen See also:

RIVER

river, between lofty hills, is very beautiful. It is the junction of See also:

RAILWAYS

railways from Christiania to Haugsund, See also:

KONGSBERG

Kongsberg and Hi nefos, and to Laurvik and See also:

SKIEN

Skien. The See also:

TOWN

town is See also:

MODERN

modern, having suffered from fires in 1866, 187o and 1880. It consists of three parts: Bragernaes on the See also:

north, divided by the river from Stri mso and the See also:

PORT

port, Tangen, on the See also:

south. The prosperity of Drammen depends mainly on the See also:

TIMBER

timber See also:

trade; and saw-milling is an active See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry, the logs beingfloated down the river from the upland forests. Timber and See also:

wood-pulp are exported (over See also:

HALF

half of each to See also:

GREAT

Great See also:

BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain), with See also:

paper, See also:

ICE (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Eis)

ice and some See also:

COBALT (symbol Co, atomic weight 59)

cobalt and See also:

nickel ore. The See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief imports are See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

COAL

coal and See also:

German machinery. See also:

Salmon are taken in the upper reaches of the Drammen.

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