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the merit of reconciling all their statements. It is too 

 plausible to be true, and 1 do not think he took this line, 

 unless, indeed, he went to look for some little weed in its 

 native habitat ; but as George Eliot says, ' I am beginning 

 to lose respect for the petty acumen that sees difficulties.' 

 He says he went by sea from Elsinore ; well, he took 

 ship from Elsinore to Aarhus, the capital of Jutland, 

 where Pulteney finds him ; thence he went by land to 

 Neustadt, where Stoever picks him up, and by boat to 

 Travemunde and Liibeck, where truth, history, and all 

 the biographers make sure of him. He made the journey 

 through the north of Jutland on his return, as he went 

 by sea from Rouen to the Cattegat, where the wind went 

 contrary and his farther voyage that way was stopped ; 

 therefore I urge that he travelled from Fredrikshaven 

 by land to Aarhus, whence he returned, as we know he 

 did, to Elsinore. And this is the route I took in order 

 to follow him according to my hypothecated plan of 

 his travels. I speak as Chorus, and shall describe the 

 country as I saw it. 



Aarhus is a large town with fine streets L one of 

 them raised on a viaduct after the manner of our Hoi- 

 born several handsome churches with carillons, and an 

 old romanesque brick cathedral with a remarkable tower. 

 This church is frescoed and painted elegantly inside. 

 Here the two medical travellers landed, we must suppose, 

 and proceeded southward with all speed. The evening 

 mists hung heavy on the fields, and the climate felt 

 milder and moister than in Sweden. More barley than 



