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A tiny white net cap, the size and shape of a pork 

 sausage, made of a quilling of net round five inches' 

 length of lace, is stuck on at the back of the head. 

 This costume is generally worn by maidens of the in- 

 dustrious orders in this part of the world, and very neat 

 and maidenly it is. 



Timber-wharves show the speciality of Kiel, besides 

 the men-of-war laid up in the harbour, and the numerous 

 officers and seamen, whose capping of each other and 

 the military reminds an Englishman of Portsmouth, as 

 he walks along Kiel Strand. 



Morning sunshine shows the lake scenery of Holstein 

 to advantage. It is very pretty country from Preetz 

 to Greemsmiihlen with their fine beech woods encircling 

 their lakes. But Eutin seen in a heavy rainfall looks 

 like a failure, which is disappointing, as Baedeker praises 

 it so highly. The sea-gulls only can venture out ; but the 

 varied landscape of hill and dale, with streams and happy 

 thatched homesteads, looks pleasing in the worst of 

 weather, as one sits in a sheltered window eating white 

 bread and the white butter given by the brown cows 

 feeding in the black bog-beplastered fields. The people 

 look rosier and prettier, and in fact more Swedish, about 

 here than elsewhere in Germany; so Linnaeus was the 

 less pained by the contrast. Our hero went by sea from 

 Neustadt to Travemunde, thence up the sleepy river 

 Trave to Liibeck. Here we are certainly on his foot- 

 steps. Stoever, Turton, Pulteney, Fee, and the ' Ham- 

 burg Courant ' all agree with Linnaeus himself in this. 



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