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is extensive, the services of this engine are not often 

 needed. The electricity generated here lights the 

 town and college, and supplies power to various 

 machines. Another windmill close by pumps the 

 local water* This station seems to be a Govern- 

 ment venture, but I did not gather that it is con- 

 sidered a complete success owing to the uncertainty 

 of everything that depends upon wind. 



I visited an interesting spot in this neighbourhood 

 which is known as Skibelund Krat, where there is 

 an open-air meeting-place situated in a kind of natural 

 theatre. All about this theatre stand monuments to 

 historians and poets, or learned persons connected 

 with Danish education. One of these, to Ludwig 

 Schroder and his wife, the founders of the Askov 

 High School, had been only unveiled on the day 

 previous to my visit. 



The view from a monument known as the Magnus 

 Stone was singularly charming in the quiet light of 

 the evening. Diversified by plantations, fields, and 

 farmhouses, the landscape slopes gradually upwards 

 to Schleswig in Germany, which is here divided from 

 Denmark by a little stream running at the bottom 

 of a gentle valley. I was told that the Danes who 

 reside on German territory come to this place to hold 

 meetings almost every Sunday, and thus keep them- 

 selves in touch with the land from which they have 

 been divorced. 



