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BORNHOLM.
Chap. LUI.
Bornholm was in Denmark! Was it prudent, was
it politic, of her Majesty to encourage anything
Danish? If it had only come from Germany,—they
were certain Queen Madalena–––-” but Madalena was
now only queen dowager, and, like most dowagers, out
of fashion. The mode took, and the following year the
jewellers of Copenhagen sold 1080 ornaments,
shoebuckles, and headpins of the newly-introduced material.
But Bornholm diamonds, like Bristol stones and
Alençon crystals, had their day, and died out together
with knee-breeches, hoops, and powder; and in the
present century ask a Copenhagener if he knows what
a Bornholm diamond is, he will stare you in the
face and look on you as demented.
The country is now intersected by a succession of
ravines rugged and wild—one, termed the Devil’s Creek.
Our drive continues—more sylvan, more picturesque.
We pass a second beacon, and, turning a few yards
off the road, drive up to the little cemetery, wherein,
shaded by an ancient gnarled ash, growth of
centuries, stands the church of Øster Lars, largest of the
round churches of Bornholm. Around the top of the
building runs a line of pigeon-holes. The tower itself is
supported by buttresses of immense strength; we mounted
to its summit. A narrow gallery runs round within the
outside walls, pierced by the above-mentioned
pigeonholes. Then comes a second wall, stronger, if anything,
than the first, with loopholes, like in the church of Ole ;
and within again a third wall, defended in a similar
manner, though when once driven within for protection there
could be no possible outlet. The same arrangement is
found in the second story below. The earlier Christian
inhabitants of the island, pirates and sea-robbers, lovers
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