82 SPORT IN NORWAY. 
AGERsHUUs AMT. 
This province, the capital of which is Christiania, 
situate at the head of the Christiania Fjord, is bounded 
on the north-east by Hedemarken Amt; on the north- 
west by Christians Amt; and on the south-west by 
Buskeruds Amt, and the Christiania Fjord. 
It contains 404 square miles, and is divided 
into three Fogderies. Its scenery, though not grand, 
has a pleasing interchange of hill, dale, and plain, with 
extensive forest ranges. 
The principal rivers are the Vormen, running from 
the Midsen at Minde into the Glommen at Nes, and 
flowing into the Oyeren lake. 
The fishing in this Amt is very insignificant. To 
say that salmon are not found in it would be, strictly 
speaking, incorrect ; but for all practical purposes there 
is no place worth trying. And though trout may be 
found in every stream and little ‘“beek,” yet no sport 
is to be had, I may say, in any river in the whole of 
this province. 
The Nordmarken lakes, about fourteen or fifteen 
miles from Christiania, in the middle of an extensive 
vange of forest, contain many fine trout. Leave must, 
however, first be got from the proprietor, Baron Wedel, 
who preserves the fishing very strictly. Being, how- 
