LARVIK

LAURVIK  or LAURVIG, a seaport of Norway, in Jarlsberg and Laurvik amt (county), at the head of a short fjord near the mouth of the Laagen river, 98 m . S.S.W. of Christiania by the Skien railway . Pop . (1900) 10,664 . It has various industries, including saw and planing mills, shipbuilding, glass-works and factories for wood-pulp, barrels and potato flour; and an active trade in exporting timber, ice, wood-pulp and granite, chiefly to Great Britain, and in importing from the same country coal and salt . The port has a depth of 18 to 24 ft. beside the quays . Four miles south is Fredriksvaern, formerly a station of the Norwegian fleet and the seat of a naval academy . Laurviks Bad is a favourite spa, with mineral and sulphur springs and mud-baths .