MAKE A MEME View Large Image View of Crystal Rocks (JW Edy plate 09).jpg Artwork Creator John William Edy en View of Crystal Rocks No IX A REMARKABLE VIEW IN THE ISLE OF HELLISÖE On the opposite side of a bason or small harbour enclosed with mountains of stone are a ...
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Keywords: View of Crystal Rocks (JW Edy plate 09).jpg Artwork Creator John William Edy en View of Crystal Rocks No IX A REMARKABLE VIEW IN THE ISLE OF HELLISÖE On the opposite side of a bason or small harbour enclosed with mountains of stone are a group of singular forms said to be shoots of crystal They are angular and rise perpendicularly above the surface of deep water more than two hundred feet having a few shrubs in the cavities and their heads nearly covered with moss On the left lic the fragments of a ship wrecked upon the coast in which was a sailor above his waist in water; fatigue cold and hunger had bereft him of his senses The humane and charitable natives ran to his relief and happily enabled him to return to his native home and family On the highest point of the island are the marks to direct seamen in the Skager These are two large towers or cones of stones with flat tops painted white Here is also a burial-place for shipwrecked mariners where they are decently interred and the pastor of the district scatters a spoonful of consecrated earth on the corpse while reading the service A circle of stones or a small wooden cross on which the name is inscribed if known points out the spot where his sad relics lic Several terrific passes run among the rocks with large fragments wedged between them which the passenger sees fearfully suspended over his head Collapse bottom http //urn nb no/URN NBN no-nb_digibok_2011072910001 Boydell's picturesque scenery of Norway London 1820 Plate no 9 p 93 in scanned copy no-nb_digibok_2011072910001 PD-Art-100 John William Edy Boydell's picturesque scenery of Norway Ny-Hellesund
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