136 VISIT TO DENMARK [1799. 



white look which is so disgusting in Denmark. 

 Neither have they that uniformity so remarkable 

 among the Danes. They are much more agreeable 

 in their manners, and, with the exception of the inn- 

 keepers and people concerned on the roads, more 

 honest. 



2. Their dress is plain ; none of those absurd or- 

 naments before described are to be seen here. Their 

 clothes are large and comfortable of a warm wool- 

 len in summer, and sheepskin in winter. In Scania 

 (province on the southern coast) we observed they 

 were chiefly white ; after that we came among blue : 

 the poorest boys who drove us had good clothing, and 

 stockings and shoes. At work they use wooden shoes, 

 but we saw them always with leather when unem- 

 ployed. 



3. Their houses are all good and clean magnificent 

 compared to those of the English peasantry, and much 

 better than the Danish. They are built of logs, with 

 white plastered chimneys and windows. They are 

 generally painted red, and either thatched or covered 

 with timber planks ; and to preserve them from wet, 

 they are raised on four small pillars of stone, some- 

 times of wood; sometimes, in the better sort, a dwarf 

 wall is built a few feet up. 



Almost every house, if it has offices, has a large 

 maypole; in many places parts of the flowers remain, 

 and often a weather-index is placed at the top. The 

 fires (of wood) are lit in a large stone chimney, open- 

 ing into the room, in the corner. The damper is 



