GLANCES AT THE FORESTS OF 

 NORTHERN EUROPE. 



I. DENMARK. 



THE opening chapter of these glances at forestry in the north of 

 Europe is assigned to Denmark because the idea of preparing them 

 was suggested in connection with a professional visit to the north of 

 Europe, which I was invited, as a minister, to make last summer, and 

 Denmark was my point of departure, after crossing the German 

 Ocean or North Sea. I may further state, that in preparing these 

 sketches I avail myself freely of information previously obtained on 

 similar journeys and otherwise, as well as of what I gathered in the 

 course of this trip. 



Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, may be reached by railway 

 from Hamburg in fifteen hours, or it may be reached by steamer 

 direct from Hull, Newcastle, or Leith, in about forty-eight hours. 

 The railway journey from Hamburg will enable the traveller to 

 see something of the country ; but more may be seen by proceeding 

 by rail and steam from Copenhagen toFrederikshavn and Gottenburg , 

 and thence to Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. 



In Copenhagen the traveller should not fail to see the Thorwald- 

 sen Museum, the statuary by Thorwaldsen in the Fruekirk, or Church of 

 our Lady ; and if he is interested in anthropology and ethnography, 

 the museums of objects illustrative of these in the Prindsen Palace 

 should also be visited. 



It is some forty years since I first visited Copenhagen. I was 

 proceeding from St. Petersburg to London by the Sirius the first 

 steamer which crossed the Atlantic, and the first steamer which made 

 a voyage from Britain to the capital of Russia. Coal had to be taken 

 in at Copenhagen, and six hours being required for this, I went with 

 my wife to see the city. Meeting a " douce canny " man walking 

 slowly with his hands behind his back, and an umbrella under his 

 arm, I accosted him, and in broken German asked the way to some 

 object we wished to ' see. To my surprise he exclaimed in broad 

 Scotch, " Ae, Mr. Broon, who's a wi' ee ? " I was taken aback. He 

 proved to be the skipper of a Leith vessel who had heard me preach 

 in Leith, and whose wife was an old acquaintance and friend of 



