TOUR IN SKANE 269 



made, the easiest way of getting to Landscrona from 

 Lund was by Malmo and Denmark ! Even Christian IV., 

 as we see by his journal, among other difficulties could 

 not pass the Kaae Aa (between Landscrona and Helsing- 

 borg) on account of the high water. The road by the 

 coast is generally a sandy level, with two rivers to cross. 

 These are bridged now. That Linnasus did not take this 

 opportunity of visiting Denmark is a fair argument 

 that he had been there before. Landscrona now pos- 

 sesses factories of beetroot sugar, and, like all these coast 

 towns of SkSne, thrives by exporting corn. 



From here Linnasus crossed by boat to the Swedish 

 island of Hween (Hven), about five English miles off, 

 where Tycho Brahe formerly dwelt at Uranienborg, and 

 where he had his subterranean observatory of Stelle- 

 borg. ' Neither rat nor serpent is to be found oiLjfchis 

 island. It is a very primitive place.' This visit to the 

 old star-gazer's abode at Uranienborg was quite a pious 

 pilgrimage with Linnaeus. 



Balteberga, a fine estate belonging to the widow of 

 Baron Bennet, next received him. Thence, on July 9, he 

 went to Helsingborg, and copied out carefully the epi- 

 taph placed in the church by a daughter of Tycho Brahe 

 to his memory. Thence he looked across on Danish 

 Elsinore. It is a comfort to read of Elsinore without 

 Hamlet's father's ghost being raised. Linnaaus never 

 mentions Hamlet, for all his knowledge of Amlech, near 

 Wexio. Here he joined Baron Harlemann's company 

 in a circuit to Tommarp and liamlosa, and again to 



