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our family, though I had never before met with him. To his kind- 

 ness in acting as a guide we owed much . He had been detained in 

 port by unfavourable winds. 



About six miles from Copenhagen is the Dyrehave, or Deer-park, a 

 beautiful forest of, oaks and beeches, easily reached by steamboat or 

 rail, being a favourite resort of many people in summer. But to 

 the student of forest science, Denmark is more interesting from illus- 

 trations which it supplies of what has been, than of what is, in connec- 

 tion with forestry. So late as the eleventh century Jutland was 

 described as horrida sylvis, but it has gradually lost the greater 

 part of its woods. From the western coast of Schleswig they have 

 disappeared; on the eastern coast alone are they to be seen, and even 

 there they are but thinly scattered over the country. 



The kingdom of Denmark is composed of several islands, together 

 with a portion of the continent of Europe. Some of these islands are 

 characterized by fertility, and Zealand, the largest, and that on which 

 the capital stands, has the face of the country beautifully diversified 

 with woods and lakes ; Jutland, the continental peninsula, is more 

 fertile still. 



"The aspect of the Danish islands," says a writer of the last generation, 

 " in general, is pleasant and cheerful, consisting of plains intersected by gentle 

 hills, sometimes insulated and sometimes continuous, forming agreeable 

 valleys. The heights, for the most part, are clothed with pasture or shaded 

 with tufts of trees, whilst clear and azure lakes occasionally animate the 

 scene. The province of Jutland presents a ruder aspect, but at the same 

 time more varied and imposing, diversified with majestic forests, upland 

 moors, and fertile pastures. Holstein and Sleswick are level and well-culti_ 

 vated countries, resembling England in their variety of hills, woods, rivulets, 

 meadows, and corn-fields. The environs of Plien are distinguished for their 

 picturesque, and those of Sleswick-town, Flensburg, and Apeurad for their 

 romantic beauties." 



From statements made in Reventlovs Wirksomlied som Konyens 

 Embedsmand og Statens Borger, edited by Bergsoe, and cited by 

 Marsh in "Man and Nature; or, the Earth, as modified by Human 

 Action," it appears that 



" The felling of the woods on the Atlantic coast of Jutland has exposed the 

 soil not only to drifting sands, but to sharp sea winds that have exerted a 

 sensible deteriorating effect on the climate of that peninsula whi ch has no 

 mountains to serve at once as a barrier to the force of winds, and as a 

 storehouse of moisture received by precipitation or condensed from atmos- 

 pheric vapours." 



In Schleswick-Holstein, and in Jutland, there are upwards of a 

 thousand German square miles of dunes and sand plains 1,005 

 German, or 20,350 English square miles. 



Besides suffering from the drifting of these sands, which may be 

 attributed in a great measure to the destruction of the forests, and 



