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TELEMARK , or TIIELEMARte, a See also:

DISTRICT

district of See also:

SOUTHERN

southern See also:

Norway, wholly comprised in the amt (See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county) of Bratsberg. It covers the uplands and fjelds of the southward See also:

PROJECTION

projection of the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, having its highest point in the Gaustafjeld (6200 ft.); and contains several large and beautiful lakes, as NordsjO, Bandaksvand, Tinsjo, Mjosvand and Totakvand. The two first are connected by the Bandaks See also:

canal, a See also:

FINE

fine See also:

ENGINEERING

engineering See also:

WORK

work giving See also:

ACCESS (Lat. accessus)

access from the See also:

PORT

port of See also:

SKIEN

Skien to Dalen at the See also:

head of Bandaksvand. From Dalen, which may be reached by road from the railway at See also:

KONGSBERG

Kongsberg (38 See also:

MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles) a See also:

DRIVING (from " to drive," i.e. generally to propel, force along or in, a word common in various forms to the Teutonic languages)

driving road much frequented by travellers runs See also:

north-See also:

west. It traverses a precipitous wooded See also:

GORGE

gorge, its course in parts hewn out of the See also:

rock, and skirts the Borte and Grungedal lakes, follows the Flaathyl See also:

RIVER

river, passes the Vafos and Little Rjukanfos (waterfalls), and See also:

Lake Voxli, and culminates at Haukelidsaeter, a station grandly situated among the fjelds at a height of 3085 ft. It rises to the See also:

WATERSHED

watershed (3715 ft.) and then, leaving the district, descends abruptly with a remarkable winding course to Roldal (58 miles from Dalen), and soon divides, one See also:

BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch surmoupting the Horrebraekke pass and continuing to See also:

ODDE, or ODDA

Odde, the other traversing the beautiful See also:

BRATLANDSDAL (i.e. Bratland valley)

Bratlandsdal. On the Kongsberg-Dalen road is Hitterdal, with a See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good specimen of the Stavekirke or See also:

MEDIEVAL

medieval See also:

TIMBER

timber-built See also:

church. A divergence from this route may be made by way of Tinsjo to Fosso, where the Maan river forms a fine fall (Rjukanfos) of 415 ft.

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