B ?J?K The countI7 which we traverfed from Cappel to Flendlburg
<---- was no lefs delightful; the gravel roads wind through green
lanes, with quickfet hedges, through enclofed fields, and finall
woods, reminding me v fo much of my native country, that I al-
moft fancied I was palling through Englilh lanes and Englilh en-
clofures : the country is greatly diverfified with fcattered farm-
houfes and frequent villages.
We made this excurfion in an open cart; and, as the weather
was fine, enjoyed a conllant view of this delightful and cultivated
diftridt. The peafant who drove us informed me, that the
country yields all forts of grain and flax, and abounds in pallure;
that the peafants weave fufficient linen and coarfe cloth for their
own ufe, knit their worfted ftockings, and make their boots and
ihoes. They procure hats and a better fort of cloth from Flendf-
burg. Their food is chiefly rye-bread, cheefe, eggs, millr, and
occalionally meat. They diftil fpirits from malt, and make
cyder, which is their ufual drink.
Flendlburg carried on a confiderable trade during the American
war, and poffeffed 200 merchant velfels, feveral of which
failed to the Well Indies. Peace has reflored the commerce
to its old channels; many of the velfels have been fold, the traffic
to the Well Indies has' been confiderably lelfened, and the chief
trade of the town now centers in the Hie of Zealand, the coafls
of Norway, and Sweden.
From Flendlburg we puihed our travels into Jutland, not fo
much with a view to fee the countiy, as from a defire to pay our
m relpefts
refpefts to the brothers and fillers of the unfortunate prince Ivan,
who are now fettled at Horfens, a town of Jutland, fituated at
the extremrty of a bay of the Baltic, a few miles from the frontiers
of Jutland.
Having palled through Haderlleven and Apenraad, we quitted
the duchy of Slefwic, crofted the fmall river Aue, which forms
the boundary of that duchy, and arrived at Colding, the frontier
town of Jutland, a fmall town on the extremity of a bay of the
Little Belt. The harbour is above two miles in circumference,
and fufficiently deep to admit ihips of the largeft burthen.
The royal palace is a large quadrangular building of brick
lluccoed white : it contains a magnificent fuite of 190 rooms of
good fize and proportions, which have not been furnilhed fince
the time of Frederic the Third. This palace, now untenanted
and out of repair, was formerly much tufited by the kings of Denmark,
two of whom died in the chamber which is now called
the prince royal’s apartment; namely, Frederic the Second,
and Chriftian the Third. The apartment is hung with old ta-
peftry, reprefenting the great Margaret hunting, who is faid to
have refided here. A fine profpeit prefented itfelf from the
windows of the caftle, commanding the harbour, bounded by gentle
hills diverfified with wood and pallure, and clofed by a diftant
view of the ille of Funen. A fmall toll is paid for all cattle paf-
fing from Jutland into Holftem. I f I am rightly informed, about
200 horfes, 4000 oxen, and 10,000 fwine are annually exported
by this paffage.
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