214 VISIT TO DENMARK [*799. 



tiania. During this day we did not feel it very cold. 

 Found good beds, a very good inn, and comforted 

 ourselves with wine, as we could only get a sandwich 

 for supper. 



Dec. 26. Called on Squire Haygerup the mayor, 

 Mr Lee the English vice-consul, and Mr Matheson a 

 merchant. The governor and Mr Anker and all else 

 being out of town, as is the custom at Christmas, 

 experienced much hospitality. Dined en famille 

 with Mr Haygerup, and heard the Norwegian song. 

 Supped at Mr Lee's. 



Dec. 27. -Went to buy books and maps, and found 

 the town miserably provided in these very few and 

 enormously dear. The furs we found equally scarce, 

 but saw some uncommon fine lynxes. The town is 

 very regularly built. A considerable part of the 

 houses are of brick, and some very large and hand- 

 some. So regularly are the streets built that one 

 cannot easily find his way. At the meetings of the 

 streets are placed large square cisterns or reservoirs 

 of water, supplied by copious streams. These were 

 smoking to-day like boiling caldrons. The streets 

 are spacious and even ; the houses built chiefly of 

 timber, though many of them are of brick and stone, 

 covered with a rough coat of stucco. Aniong the 

 public buildings we noticed the school or university, 

 the prison, and the fortress which is separate from 

 the town, called Aggershuus the old name of the city, 

 and the name of the province to this day. The town 

 stands on an arm of the sea, far indeed from the ocean, 



