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Foreign Notices. — Denmark. 



issues a current of air, which, in August, at noon, was 45' Fahr., while the 

 external air was at 70°. On the banks of the Lake of Lucerne, and at the 

 foot of one of the bases of Mount Pilate, are little wooden huts (except the 

 back wall of stone), used as cold caves. On the 31st of July the heat in the 

 shade was 73*2°, and within the huts 39^°. Milk could be kept for three 

 weeks, meat for a month, and cherries for twelve months. In one hut snow 

 was preserved all summer. {For. Rev. and Cont. Misc.) 



DENMARK. 

 Frederiksdal {fig. 125.) is a spot possessing much natural beauty, and if 

 it has not been improved, neither has it been injured, by art. It forms one 

 of the finest views from the hill of Sorgenfrie. The gardens of Rosenborg 

 are not now so extensive by one third as they were in the days of Chris- 

 tian IV. ; they have lately been modernised, and recall to mind the beauties 



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of English landscape-gardening. Amager Island is the kitchen-garden of 

 Copenhagen ; it was peopled ty a Flemish colony in the 16th century, who 

 still retain their old dress, and many of their peculiar customs. Frederiks- 

 berg is approached by an avenue of four rows of lofty lime trees, lining a 

 broad carriage road in the centre, and forming on each side a spacious walk 

 for pedestrians, with a narrower path, edging the exterior lines of the trees. 

 The gardens were laid out in the English style, by the late M. Voigt, who 

 had to work upon a dead level of no great extent. Dr. Clarke published a 

 description of these gardens twenty years after he had seen them, and hence 

 they appear in his book as in the ancient style ; but the fact is, they were 

 rearranged in the modern taste the year after the Doctor saw them. When 

 Belzoni saw them, in 1822, he exclaimed, " Bless me, how much this is like 

 England ! " {Feldborg^s Denmark.) 



Jcegerspriis is an old royal seat, on a finely wooded isthmus. Here is an 

 oak supposed to be one thousand years old ; the trunk is about six yards 

 in height, and sixteen yards in circumference. Although nearly excavated, 

 it still displays a luxuriant top, and the branches, which extend all round to 

 a distance of 10 yards, are of the size of considerable trees. Four peasants 

 on horseback once found room in its cavity, and eighteen men on foot at 

 another time. This phenomenon stands in a moist and mouldy soil, sur- 

 rounded by magnificent beeches and oaks, which afford good shelter to the 

 sire of the forest. 



