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the return, to view the shores of Faroe, Shetland and the Orkney 
Islands, and this programme was as far as possible strictly adhered to. 
The steam yacht “Ceylon,” belonging to the Ocean Steam Yachting 
Company, was the vessel in which I embarked on the 23rd day of 
June, 1884. As arranged, she left her moorings at Gravesend, 
punctually at 2 p.m. of that day, and proceeded to Scarborough. We 
remained there some hours, and many of our voyagers landed. The 
boats having returned to the skip, bringing several new passengers, the 
start was then for Leith, where we arrived early the following morning, 
being thus enabled to have an entire day in Edinburgh. I need not enter 
into a description of its various sights, as most of those present have 
probably been there. In the evening, with an accession of new faces, 
we left for Copenhagen. On the morning of the 27th we passed 
Elsinore, a fortress of great strength, on a point of land jutting out 
into the sea with fortifications more than a mile long, and guns on 
every side commanding the Sound. Denmark holds her status in 
Europe by right of this fortress, the Dardanelles of the north ; later in 
the day the palaces and steeples of Copenhagen appeared in view. 
Shortly afterwards we dropped anchor, and lost no time in going 
ashore. The chief city of Denmark contains a population of 233,000. 
The palaces (one of which has been recently burnt), public buildings, 
galleries and museums, render this a very agreeable sojourn, but 
the most interesting to the visitor is the Thorwalsden Museum, con- 
sisting of works of Art by the sculptor himself and left by him to the 
Danish nation. Tke museum contains about 40 rooms decorated in the 
Pompeian style, with numerous corridors, galleries and halls for 
colossal statues. Through these are distributed about 600 of 
Thorwalsden’s works—a splendid result of one man’s genius! The 
tomb of the artist, who died in 1844, is in the midst of the court yard 
of the museum—a simple massive marble sarchophagus, covered with 
trailing ivy, and bearing no inscription save the name that has made 
Denmark illustrious. Another great attraction is the museum of 
Northern Antiquities, unrivalled in its kind, and containing collections 
of stone weapons, ornaments, &c., to 500 B.c., bronzes to 500 a.D., and 
articles wrought in iron, gold and silver to 1,000 a.p. Copenhagen is 
the centre not only of Danish, but of Northern literature and art, and 
is the seat of a number of societies for the advancement of these in all 
their branches. 
