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BORNHOLM.
Chap. LII.
was a certain preacher of Copenhagen, that one Sunday,
when the sand was run out, the congregation exclaimed
together in a body, “ Turn it—turn it again! ” In
all the churches you enter hangs, surmounted by a
skeleton mowing away for his very life, a statistical
table of the deaths caused in the different parishes of
the island by the pest of 1618, when 5185 persons fell
victims to its rage in Bornholm alone.
OLSKER.
I have seldom come across a more picturesque church
than that of Olsker, which we next visited; it has scarcely
any excrescence attached to its solid round tower,
supported by Cyclopean buttresses, one round-arch doorway,
the weeest apse in the world; the little cemetery,
surrounded by stone walls, possesses four lich-gates, one
for each point of the compass; and the queerest of all
queer striped belfries. Outside the cemetery wralls are
attached iron rings, some to the wall itself, others toposts,
the larger ones with the name of the proprietor inscribed
above, intended for securing the farmer’s steed during
his attendance at divine service. Loyal Bornholm
proclaims on a painted board, with much respect,
that in the year 1687 his–––(at least four lines of
titles) Majesty Christian V. honoured the round church
of Ole with a visit. Leaving the church, you have a
fine view over the Baltic, with the fortress island of
Christiansø, and two other little 0’s. On
approaching the main road we find ourselves among the blue
rocks of Bornholm, which rise among the fields,
among the woods, everywhere, clothed with gray
lichen. The cows are of a smaller race than those
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