BOOK
IX .
I
country is gently undulating, produces much corn and pafture,
and is finely interfperfed with fmall forefts of beech and oak.
The lea views are uncommonly , enchanting, and the villas and
country feats delightfully fituated on the ihores of the Sound.
The royal park, about four miles from the capital, is perhaps
the fineft fpot for the natural beauty of the gently waving
grounds, and the richnefs of the wood ; and fufficiently proves,
that the nobles might lay out their grounds equal to ours in
England, if they would trull more to nature and lefs to art.
In the midll of the park St. Helen’s fpring is a favourite fpot,
to which the nobility and gentry, and the lower clafs of people,
refort in the month of July, as to a kind of fair. Many tents
and booths are eredled for the reception of the company»
Sometimes the royal family make their appearance'. The common
people elleem themfelves- very unfortunate, if they do not
talle the waters of the Ipring every year» The weather being,
very fine, and the feafon quite delightful, we roved with plea'-
fure about the woods, enjoying the beauties of unadulterated
nature, and walked to the hermitage, a building Handing in the
'moll elevated part,, and commanding a moll extenfive view over
the Baltic, the ille of Huen, and the coaft of Sweden.
The following table will give a more exadt notion of the revenues
and expence of Denmark, in time of peace, than I was able
• to furnilh in my former volumes»
Danilh
Danilh Revenues.
Land-tax - - £ . 800,000
* Sound duties - - 100,000
Poll tax and other taxes - - 300,000
■f- Extraordinary contributions - 200,000
£ . 1,400,000
Danilh Expenditure.
Civil lift 400,000
* T h e importance o f the Sound duties to the government o f Denma rk , may he
inferred from the number o f veilels which paiTed the Sound in 1782.
E n g liih - 12.64 L u b e c - - 1 1 2
Daniih - - 163+ Bremen - . 240
Swediih - - 2 1 2 1 HambuFgh - - 50
Ruffian 158 R o fto ck - 89
D u tch 16 V en ic e %
Portuguefe - - 38 A u ftr ia n Netherlands- SOS
Pruflian - 1907
F rom D an tz ic 328 8465
t Am on g the extraordinary contributions
is the tax on honours and rank, laid
in the following proportion Perfons o f
the firft rank pay annually 80 rix -d ol-
lars, or 16 ; o f the fécond 1 4 1. ; o f the
third 8 /. ; fourth 6 /. ; fifth 3 /. 4*. ; fixth
3 /. ; feventh 2 /. 8 i/eighth 1 /. 12 s. ; and
ninth 1 /, 4 i. A l l the places and penfions are
rated in the following p r o p o r t i o n P e n fions
not lefs than 400 rix-dollars or 80 /.
and upwards, pay 10 per cent, ; from 70/.
to 80/. 8 per c e n t . ; from 60/. to 70 L
7 per c e n t .; from 50/. to 60/. 5 per c e n t .;
from 40 /. to 50/. 4 per c en t.; from 30 /.
to 4 0 1. 3 per c e n t . ; and from 20 /. to
30 /. 2 per cent, -
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