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IX . miles in circumference; the ground gently iloping to its banks,
J and adorned with large foreft trees. I fcarcely ever beheld a
lituation more capable o f improvement, and wiihed for a difciple
of Brown to lay out the ground. But this beautiful fituation
is fpoiled (if it can be fpoiled) by cut yews, ftrait walks, a profusion
of ftatues and triumphal arches, where nature and fimpli-
city are expelled; for in thofe parts, on the oppofite fide of the
lake, where nature is left to herfelf, nothing can exceed its
beauty and piiftureique fcenery.
The palace is a brick building ñuccoed white, confiding of a
front, and two wings. It was built by Frederic the Fourth, and
called Friedeniberg, or the maniion of P i ice, becaufe it was finiih-
■ed in 1720, when the peace was concluded with Sweden, after a
long war which had defolated both countries. As a memorial of this
event, a wooden pillar, painted like marble, and a fmall ftatue o f
Peace, are erecSed in the area before the palace, more expreffive of
the fatisfa&ion with which Frederic gave peace to his fubjeds, than
of his tañe in architedure. It bears the following infcription *,P ad
Jlatuam, arcem,quodquereliquumfuit vita;, dedicavitFredericus $uar-
tus, 1720; a promife which the monarch inviolably kept during
the remainder of his reign, and which refleds the higheñ honour
on his memory, as his fpirit of enterprize and undaunted
courage had given him a paflion for war. From this period he had
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leifure to attend to the internal regulations of his kingdom, and
to form ufeful eftabliihments, particularly the foundation of fe-
veral country fchools which endears his memory to his countrymen.
Nothing more is wanting to render Friedeniberg a moil delightful
fpot, than to remove the cut hedges, level the terraces,
to permit the foreft trees to expand and to grow ; in a word, to
leave nature to herfelf.
In the garden is a very curious aflemblage of flatues, placed
regularly on a circular terrace of earth riling one above the other.
Thefe ilatues are of hone painted white, and reprefent the Norway
peafants habited in their various drelîès.
We did not attempt to requeft the permiffion of feeing the
palace, as it is now inhabited by the queen dowager, Juliana
Maria ; the place of her majefty’s retirement, fince the
prince royal has taken into his hands the adminiftration of
affairs.
Early the next morning we quitted the village of Friedeniberg,
where we found a very neat inn, with comfortable accommodations
; and returning by the palace of Fredericiborg, palled on to
Fredericfwerk, near the Ife-fiord; a bay of the fea, on the northern
ihore of Zealand, where general Clauffen has eftablilhed
various manufadtures, a foundery for calling cannon, and other
works, for the purpofe of fupplying the Danilh army and navy
with military ftores.
The general, to whom we had a letter of recommendation, re-
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