138 VISIT TO DENMARK [1799. 



seeds ; this the better sort of people drink in Stock- 

 holm. On the whole, the peasantry live more com- 

 fortably in every respect than in England. 



5. They all work in iron and wood ; in the former 

 clumsily enough, in the latter very neatly : they use 

 the adze for everything. They make neat boxes, and 

 vats of a large size, hooped and tipped with iron. 

 These we met in whole caravans on the road, and the 

 boxes often filled with cheeses, all going to fair and 

 market. 



6. The number of lakes is very striking, but still 

 more so farther to the north. We saw few rocks 

 the first two days, but the third we found great 

 blocks here and there among the woods. The coun- 

 try was in general flat during all these days, and 

 seems favourable to inland navigation. 



7. The roads are excellent ; they are made of gravel, 

 and kept up by the proprietors through whose ground 

 they run. Everywhere we saw stuck up by the road- 

 side something written, which we afterwards found 

 to be the name of the peasants or proprietors who 

 were bound to keep that part of the road in repair ; 

 so that the governor or road-surveyor can challenge 

 the faulty person at any time. The consequence of 

 the goodness of the roads is, that the least roughness 

 or steepness, which in England would be disregarded, 

 is here deemed impassable, and the least rising of 

 ground is laboured up as if it were a steep hill. The 

 horses are very tractable and easily driven : the pea- 

 sants drive very skilfully, but crawl up the least 



