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inspection ; was always present on the public days for the 
purpose of showing and explaining the antiquities ; and when 
peasants happened to visit the collection, he paid particular 
attention to them, ‘ because,’ as he said, ‘it is by them we 
shall have our collection enlarged.’ For many years he con- 
tinued to show the collection, and to diffuse an interest in the 
old remains throughout the country, and all this without re- 
ceiving any pecuniary emolument, I ought rather to say, at 
very considerable expense to himself. At last, the collection 
became so large, that the room in the library was far from fur- 
nishing sufficient accommodation ; and the constantly increas- 
ing interest in the collection, and fresh donations of antiquities, 
made its removal necessary. After many difficulties, he made a 
great step in advance, by getting rooms in the royal palace, 
‘Christiansborg,’in Copenhagen. He then fully carried out his 
idea of arranging the Pagan antiquities into three periods, the 
stone, brass, and tron periods, which he was the first to point out 
to antiquaries. It was not long before the collection acquired a 
great name on the Continent; all foreigners spoke about it as 
one of the most remarkable collections in the north of Europe. 
The Government evinced more and more interest in the Mu- 
seum, and the public began to regard it as a national treasure. 
In the mean time, the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries 
in Copenhagen had published many of the remarkable Icelandic 
sagas, through which the people got more knowledge of the 
_ importance of the olden time, than they had hitherto possessed. 
The Society published in its Annals descriptions of the anti- 
quities of the Museum, and published separately popular 
tracts, illustrated with woodcuts, on the value and importance 
of preserving the antiquities, many thousands copies of which 
____were spread over the country, among clergymen, schoolmasters, 
and peasants. From all sides and all parts of the country an- 
_ tiquities were presented to the Museum; and it has now been 
enlarged to such an extent, that when the new arrangement, 
which is now going on, is finished, it will occupy about ten 
