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| Keywords: Larkullen.jpg Artwork Creator John William Edy No LXI LARKOUL On the east side of the Oslofjor Christiania Fiord and a few miles below the town of Mos is a small picturesque and secure harbour named Larkoul having a ground of excellent clay and admirably situated with two entrances one north the other south formed by the continent on the left side and some small islands on the other It is much frequented by large ships which require secure anchorage during the prevalence of those contrary winds which so suddenly and so fatally occur to navigators in the Fiord In the month of October I remarked a singular phenomenon here a regular change of wind every twelve hours to the opposite point of the compass blowing each way with equal violence and frequently obliging the pilots to return after an ineffectual effort to clear the great Fader Island This harbour was deemed so important that the Norwegians thought it expedient to fortify it strongly during a war with the Russians The remains of the walls or ramparts are now to be seen on the continental rocks to the right of the view which exhibits part of the west passage On the margin below these nearly perpendicular masses are innumerable fragments of the incumbent rocks Along the sandy beach are a few houses inhabited by boat-builders and fishermen as well as pilots governed like their brethren in the harbours of Norway by an alderman whose large house is seen on the left of the view In addition to his official occupations he employs himself in procuring and cooking fresh meat and sells bread vegetables liquors tobacco and small stores for the use of the ships in his harbour; he has two or three spare beds for passengers His house has likewise the advantage of a small garden with a few fruit trees currant and gooseberry bushes cabbages and other culinary vegetables ; the court-yard is stocked with ducks hogs and geese; there is also a small corn-field seen under the trees between the rocks On the gravel strand is a pleasant walk and there are two commodious little piers built of timber immediately between which is seen the road leading around the rocks and through a flat forest to Mos At the distance of about two miles on the way is seen the hoved kirker at Rigge it is a good stone church with a parsonage house standing on a small eminence in a valley and here the inhabitants of the district for miles around assemble on Sundays for the purpose of devotion Near it on the grounds of Mr Collett I observed growing from a hole in a rock a tall luxuriant fir whose small fibrous roots almost covered the stone like network extending many yards to the ground from whence it derived its sustenance These trees frequently occur in well sheltered places but their stability is so extremely slender that they may easily be pushed down with a walking stick applied to their tops from the rocks above and are frequently found after storms lying across the roads below It is a pleasant sail from hence to Tonsberg Dram Mos or Frederickstad from which the passage boats pass daily to or from Christiania One of them a sloop is introduced into this View as also a pilot boat with its characteristic mark a broad red stripe in the middle of the main sail from the top to the bottom and without a peak Collapse bottom http //urn nb no/URN NBN no-nb_digibok_2011072910001 Boydell's picturesque scenery of Norway London 1820 Plate no 61 p 317 in scanned version no-nb_digibok_2011072910001 PD-old-100 John William Edy Boydell's picturesque scenery of Norway Oslofjorden Sailing in Norway Larkollen | ||||
