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Keywords: Town of Holmstrand (JW Edy plate 45).jpg Artwork Creator John William Edy en Town of Holmstrand No XLV TOWN OF HOLSTRAND The road from Laurvig enters this town at the foot of a vast range of perpendicular rocks which abruptly terminates here It is a place of no great extent although of some trade It is situated partly on the declivity of a hill and on the shore of the Dram Fiord and has the convenience of many wharfs and floating stages for shipping goods The mooring place is well sheltered from the bleak northern winds; at the farther extremity of the town a large windmill is erected over which in the distance the Paradise Mountains near Dram and a portion of the Fiord are to be seen The old carriage-way to Stromsoe and Bragernæs two towns commonly called Dram or Dramen was along the sands by the sea side and immediately under a prodigious range of precipitous rocks not unlike a wall one hundred fathoms in altitude and many miles in length of a deep red colour and crumbling material The vast blocks and fragments of stone strewn by thousands on the shore indicate the fatal accidents to which travellers were liable who formerly were compelled to use this road To obviate future dangers a new one has lately been made from Holmstrand over this table mountain to Dramen; and the old perilous way is now frequented only by coast-birds and fishermen who are often seen angling for small fishes crabs c among the fragments which have fallen into the water from above To examine the aspect and forms of this immense bulwark the safest and best mode is to coast it in a boat thus avoiding the consequences of its terrible disruptions On the first view the mmd is relieved from any wish to retrace the footsteps on the old path by observing the enormous blocks resting on the slightest support ready on the first vibration of air to follow their companions ; some parts are ornamented with a few stunted shrubs and mosses The mountains seen on the right separate this Fiord from that of Christiania They are almost wholly covered with forests their timber when cut is only adapted to secondary purposes being inferior in quality to that produced by the forests in the district of Christiania which has retained its preeminence from time immemorial over all other deals cut in Norway This preeminence may in a great measure account for the wealth and great influx of inhabitants in and about Christiania and also for the removal of the ancient seat of government to it from Drontheim On riding through a Norwegian forest the traveller might expect to hear the sound of the axe and the sawmill in every direction but a solemn and awful silence prevails; on viewing these inexhaustible stores he is led to believe that they have never been molested or even thinned and he is surrounded by myriads of tall trees resembling rusticated pillars placed at convenient distances to support a superb and gloomy canopy Collapse bottom http //urn nb no/URN NBN no-nb_digibok_2011072910001 Boydell's picturesque scenery of Norway London 1820 Plate no 45 p 251 in scanned copy no-nb_digibok_2011072910001 PD-Art-100 John William Edy Boydell's picturesque scenery of Norway Holmestrand in art Oslofjorden in art Timber floating in Norway History of Vestfold Historical images of Oslofjorden
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