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CHRISTIANS AMT. 
This province borders on the Midsen lake, Hede- 
marken, and Agershuus Amts, on the south and east; 
on the north it is bounded by Romsdals Amt, and part 
of South Throndhjem Amt; and on the west and south 
by Romsdals and Buskeruds Amt. It is divided into 
three Fogderies—Thoten, Valders, and Gudbrandsdal. 
Its principal rivers are the Laagen and Rauma, which 
have their source at either end of Leesje Vand, as men- 
tioned above. 
The Laagen, which flows into the Miésen at Lilleham- 
mer, has many tributaries ; among the most important 
of which is the Otta Ely, which falls into it at Kvin- 
gelen, a mountain pass, famous in the annals of Nor- 
wegian history for the massacre of Colonel Sinclair. 
(Vide Murray’s ‘ Handbook.’) The trout-fishing in 
the Laagen is not held in high esteem. A great 
quantity of the large lake-trout are taken in traps at 
Hunnerfoss, about ten miles north of Lillehammer. 
Valders is situate in the southern part of this Amt, 
and is extremely rich in vegetation and smiling land- 
scape. The beautiful Randsfjord, formed by the con- 
fluence of the Dokka and Etnedal rivers, is about 50 
miles long, and 290 feet above the level of the sea. 
The Valders River rises near Nystuen, the extreme 
top of the Fille Fjeld, and flows with a south-westerly 
