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| Keywords: Town of Aasgaarstrand (JW Edy plate 60).jpg Artwork Creator John William Edy en Town of Aasgaarstrand No LX TOWN OF AASGAARSTRAND This is a small seaport commonly called Öester Strand situated on the west shore of the Oslofjord Fiord of Christiania between Holmestrand Holmstrand and Tønsberg Tonsberg in the district of Jarlsberg It stands pleasantly on the declivity of a hill surrounded on three sides by woody mountains For so small a town it has its share of good stone houses whitewashed with good gardens inhabited by shipowners and timber merchants ; the other dwellings built of wood and painted red are the residences of pilots mariners fishers and woodmen with their families A few ships only are freighted with timber here ; they lie at anchor under the woods a little to the eastward of the town At the water side are two or three warehouses and stages or wharfs for the convenience of shipping goods The church is on a small scale On the hill over the anchoring place is a mansion commanding an extensive view of the Fiord and adjacent parts; the salt-works at Tonsberg Drobak the great isthmus near Mos and the ferry-house where a sloop as seen by the side of the ship in the picture is always in readiness to convey goods and passengers across the Fiord to the west of Norway distant four or five miles This passage saves to the traveller going from Mos to the west a circuitous route through Christiania c of 120 miles A pleasant water excursion may be undertaken from this place down the Fiord to Tonsberg to see the stupendous salt-works and the town and sailing round the Fader light return by Frederickstad Larkoul Mos and Drobak The salt-works are an immense range of white buildings by the side of the Fiord at Walloe four or five miles from the town of Tonsberg having two conspicuous wind-mills This Koyal manufactory annually produces 25 000 tons of salt Tonsberg is very ancient as the remains of its castle denote There are some embalmed bodies and skeletons of gigantic proportions of early kings and heroes which are deemed most singular curiosities It has several churches and a large wind-mill on the hill On Fader Island in a stone building like a lime-kiln a large fire is always kept burning from sunset to sunrise as a beacon to direct ships Coasting among the numerous islands back to Frederickstad you enter an arm of the Glommen the largest and longest river in Norway ; on an island in a narrow part of it is a new square fort or battery a little above which are the roadstead and buildings with a strong walled garrison containing many troops ammunition c this being a barrier town Here are also convicts undergoing their different punishments; they are heavily ironed and some of them are chained by the neck to wheelbarrows for life Two miles above the town at Hafeslun is the stupendous cataract called Sarpe Foss the largest Sarpe in Norway; the roaring of its flood may be heard at a distance of many miles; it extends across the noble Glommen and pours the whole of its waters over a precipice into a foaming cauldron white as snow shaking the earth all around and at times presenting the most beautiful prismatic colours At its sides are many saw-mills belonging to of deals are prepared Chamberlain Rosencrantz An astonishing quantity of deals are prepared here and annually exported Mos Larkoul c will be described in future pages of this work Collapse bottom http //urn nb no/URN NBN no-nb_digibok_2011072910001 Boydell's picturesque scenery of Norway London 1820 Plate no 60 p 313 in scanned copy no-nb_digibok_2011072910001 PD-Art-100 John William Edy Boydell's picturesque scenery of Norway Åsgårdstrand in art Oslofjorden in art Sailing in Norway Historical images of Oslofjorden | ||||
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