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To Saxd (p. 47) on the Saxdsfjord on Monday (10 a.m.), Thursday
(11.30 a.m.), and Saturday (2 p.m.) in 4J/2-8 hrs. All the boats go on to
Saude or h’øvde on the Sandefjord, whence they start for Stavanger, viå
Sand, on the following morning (sat. boat on Mon.). The Thurs. boat goes
on from Sand to Hylen on the Hylsfjord. These boats touch at Jelse
or Jælsø (p. 47), hoth in going and returning.
To Sakdeid on the Sandeidfjord on Slonday (noon) and Thursday
(10 a.m.), in about 8 hrs. Both return the next day, starting at 4 a.m., the
first touching at Jelse (Jælse) on the way hack only, the second on the
way out also.
The steamers to Bergen (p. 50) merely cross the Bukkenfjord without
penetrating into any of its recesses.
a. The Lysefjord.
An excursion from Stavanger to the Lysefjord, the grandest
fjord on the S.W. coast of Norway, occupies 2-3 days, and is
attended with some fatigue and privation, unless, as sometimes
happens , an excursion-steamer runs from Stavanger to Lyse and
hack in one day. The excursion-steamer may be hired by private
parties.
The small steamer ‘Oscar II.’ plies from Stavanger to Fossnn
on Tues., Thurs., & Sun., in 2 hrs. ; or the traveller may take the
train to Sandnws (p. 43; 1 o hr.), and drive thence to (24 Kil.)
Hete or Hogs fjord (3-4 hrs,). Tolerable quarters may be procured
at Hele. Here we hire a boat with two or more rowers (15-20 kr.
for the whole excursion) and cross the Helefjord to (5 Kil.)
Fossan and the church of Gjese, at the entrance to the Lysefjord, on
the S. side, where we may visit a large moraine which led Esmark,
a Norwegian savant, about the year 1821, to the conjecture that
the whole country was once covered with glaciers. (See Forbes’s
Norway, Edin.. 1853; p. 239.) We then enter the *Lysefjord, a
wild and almost deserted arm of the sea, 500-2000 yds. in width,
23 Engl. M. long, and at places 1400 ft. in depth, and enclosed by
precipitous rocky mountains upwards of 3000 ft. high. At the head
of the fjord lies the hamlet of Lyse (poor quarters), surrounded by
imposing rocks, a little to the N. of which rises the Lysekam
(4500 ft.). A curious and unexplained phenomenon is sometimes
observed here. A crashing noLe like thunder is heard,
immediately after which a gleam of light flashes horizontally over the
surface of the fjord, disappearing halfway across. The noise and
light are believed to proceed from a kind of cavern in the face of
the rock at least 2000 t. above the fjord, and inaccessible except
by means of ropes from the top of the mountain (1000 ft. above it).
See Vibes ‘Meer und Kiisten Norwegens’ (Gotha, 1860.)
From Lyse to Ilelle in the Ssetersdal, a very rough and fatiguing walk
of two days, see p. 41.
b. The Sandsfjord and Hylsfjord.
As above mentioned three steamers weekly run from Stavanger
to Sand on the Sandsfjord and to Saude, one going on to Hylen.
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