THE NORWEGIAN ICE TRADE.
A Swedish paper describes the large export trade in ice carried on in Norway. It appears that a company has purchased an extensive lake, surrounded by mountains, in the neighbourhood of Droebak, on the Grulf°of Christiana, and, to ensure the perfect purity of the water from sewage, has even bought all the houses that stand on its shores. Each winter the ice, Which frequently attains a thickness oi two or three feet, is cut by a kind of plough into long strips, and subsequently sawn into blocks weighing from three to five hundredweight. In this form it is shipped for export, and, in properly-constructed cellars, can be preserved for so long a period that a large portion of the ice now sold in Loudon actually arrived here in 1866. Besides the regular ships belonging to the company, many vessels accidentally frozen up in the Norwegian fiords leave in the spring with cargoes of ice. By far the largest trade is carried on with England, which, in 1865, took 44,055 tons out of a total of 45,593 exported.
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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 794, 28 March 1871, Page 3
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181THE NORWEGIAN ICE TRADE. Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 794, 28 March 1871, Page 3
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