Finding a packet-boat ready to fail for the ifle of Zealand, and
learning that the wind was fair, we contented ourfelves with a
curfory view of Aarhuus, which contains nothing remarkable,
and inilantly took our paflfage. We fet fail about nine in the
evening; made during the night fcarcely more than twelve
miles; but in the morning a favourable breeze frelhening, we
crouded fail, and bore away expeditioufly. We palled feveral
finall illands, low and fandy, and for the moil part deilitute of
wood. Samfoe, the largeft, is twelve miles in length. We coaft-
ed its weilern fide. The fouthern Ihore is fomewhat woody.
At a dillance we defcried the ifie of Funen j and at two landed
at Calendborg, which lies in a bay, the furell harbour in the ille
of Zealand.
The caftle of Calendborg, in which the unfortunate Chrillian
the Second clofed his days *, is merely a mafs of ruins, It was de-
ftroyed in 1658 by the Swedes, who recollected, that their king
Albert had been confined there by Margaret his rival and conqueror.
The next day we reached Copenhagen.
• See B. VIII. c. v.
CHAP.
C H A P . II.
Copenhagen— Palace— Libraries— Villa of Count Bernfdorf-—Gratitude
of his Peafants fo r having obtained their Preedom— Remarks
on the Slavery of the Danijh Peafants— Prifon of Stru-
enfee— Account of the Execution o f Struenfee and Brandt— Environs
of Copenhagen.
f iT^ H E royal palace is a very magnificent triangular building
of hewn Hone, the wings and ilables of brick iiuccoed.
It was built by Chrillian the Sixth in feven years, as the infcrip-
tion informed me, without laying a fingle tax on the fubjeil.
The enormous expence may be in fome meafure eitimated by
its dimenfions. The front is 367 feet in length, the fides 389,
and the height 114. It has fix ilories, of which three are mez-
zonines. In the fourth itory are the grandeit fuite of apartments,
"both as to fize and decoration. The concert-room is
128 feet by 38. The Ritter Saal, or Knights Saloon, is remarkable
for the grandeur and elegance of the proportions; it is 128
feet long, 62 broad, and 48 high. It is lighted by feveral cryf-
tal chandeliers, and many gilded urns placed upon the baluilrades
of a gallery.
Among numerous pictures of the kings and queens of Denmark,
I was greatly ilruck with a portrait of Chrillian the
Fourth on board of a Ihip engaged with the Swedilh fleet. In
V o l . III. D the