B o o E fands of the Baltic, to HafFkrog, a village in Danilh Holllein,
' about five miles from Lubec. A little farther we came to Suffelen,
a village in the dominions of the prince bilhop of Lubec;
and foon afterwards reached Eutin, a town with a palace, in
which he ufually refides; and from which he alfo affumes the
title of the prince of Eutin.
The prefent prince is brother to Adolphus Frederic, late king
of Sweden : it is? like Ofnabrug, a fecular bilhoprick.
The palace is a large brick building on the banks of a lake,
and contains nothing worthy of the lealt obfervation, except a
few indifferent family pictures, amonglt which I remarked one
of the duke of Anhalt, remarkable as being the father of the
fortunate Catherine the Second, emprefs of Ruflia; and another
of Charles duke of Holllein, father of the unfortunate Peter the
Third.
The grounds are laid out in flrait walks, with cut hedges,
ilagnated canals, and jets d’eau, with an intermediate plot of
ground called an Engliih garden ; . confining chiefly of zig-zag
walks, which, according to the opinion o f moll foreigners,
are ridiculoully fuppofed to form the peculiar excellence of our
flyle.
The environs of Eutin are moll delightful; and the road from
thence to Ploen, and Hill farther to Kiel, runs through a fertile
country, through fields of corn and pallure, enclofed with
“ hedge-row elms and coppice green,” and beautifully inter-
fperfed with groves of oak and beech.
5e • It again
I again examined the canal of Kiel, which was begun in 1777, ® HjA pand
of which I have given a plan and defeription in the former u.
account of my travels*. It is now almolt finilhed, and will probably
be opened for navigation in the fpaee of three or four years..
The whole expence will not amount to £. 800,000. An expence
by no means to be regretted, if the inland navigation between
the two feas can be eflablilhed on a permanent footing.
The projefi of thole who planned this canal was no lefs than
to draw by Kiel into the Baltic the commerce of Bremen, Hanover,
and Weftphalia, which is now carried down the Vefer and
by Glucklladt upon the Elbe to Hamburgh and Lubec, and to
facilitate the tranfport of merchandize from Holland and the north
lea to the ports pf the Baltic. But the principal impediment
to the fuccefs of this canal feems to arife from the difficult navigation
of the Eyder between Rendlburgh and Tonningen, on:
account of the numerous Ihoals occafioned by the ihifting fands,
which not unfrequently render the entrance into the Eyder
impracticable, and always prevent any veffels from palling
which draw more than nine feet of water. Few Ihips therefore
which navigate the Baltic will unload their goods at Kiel, in order
to embark them in fmaller veflels to Tonningen, where the
merchandize mull be again reimbarked. Ships failing from the
Baltic to any of the Engliih or French ports will doubtlefs prefer
the navigation round the Cattegate, with all its dangers and:
.difficulties. Thofe which are dellined for Hamburgh, or the ad-
• Book VIII. C. v.
jacent