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Bleie
"What an adventure it was, that big ships came from foreign lands, to collect something so simple as ice. They came like a gust from the wider world, to a little, forgotten village society", wrote local historian Knut L.Måge.
![Oksen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ull_37.jpg?itok=oTLfqSL6)
![Watercolour of fruit orchard and vicarage in Ullensvang](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ull_22.jpg?itok=B8fktPUI)
Ullensvang vicarage
Well over 200 years ago, the priest Niels Hertzberg started making climate observations at the vicarage at Lofthus in Ullensvang. Hertzberg was active and ahead of his time in many fields, and had a great interest in natural science. Temperature and pressure were measured daily at the vicarage - often several times a day - with homemade instruments. The meteorological measurements started in December of 1797, and were carried out continuously until 1840, the year before he died.
![The fields have been affected by many landslides](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ull_12.jpg?itok=UmE0Qwae)
![From Måge](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_394-1.jpg?itok=hO2-z3lh)
Måge
Steatite is a type of stone that is abundant in Hardanger. There are large steatite deposits in the mountain below Folgefonna. These deposits are visible both in Krossdalen in Jondal, at Kveitno in Odda and at Måge in Ullensvang. There are many traces of steatite quarrying in Hardanger, and one of the largest fields is in the hillside above Måge.