TOPOGKAPHY. 



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Topography, 



All the important towns of Jylland are situated on the shores of, or at least on 

 the slopes facing towards, the Baltic. The people were naturally attracted in this 

 direction by the threefold advantage of more fertile lands, better harbours, and the 

 neighbourhood of the productive and populous islands of Fyen and Sjulland. But 

 when the Danes were casting eager eyes towards England and the other regions 

 of Western Europe, great numbers settled on the west coast, and at that time 

 Elbe, on the present German frontier, was a very important place. Now it is 

 scarcely able to keep open its communications with the sea, and the winding Ribe 

 Aa is completely blocked by shoals at low water. BuKjhfôh'uirj, farther north, is 

 a mere fishing village, though chosen as the chief town of the largest district in 

 the peninsula. No town occurs so far as the Skaw, and Thistcd, chief town of the 



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district west of the Lim- fiord, is situated on this inland sea. Here was born the 

 great geographer Malte-Brun, who, when banished from his native land, became 

 one of the glories of France. 



On the cast coast of Jylland the nearest town to the territory annexed by 

 Germany is Kokling, situated at the head of a deep fiord near the extensive ruins 

 of a castle dating from the sixteenth century, and burnt in 1808, Avhen Bernadette 

 occupied the country. Kolding is of less importance than Fredericia, which was 

 formerly fortified, and commanded the northern entrance of the Little Belt. 

 Farther north the Yejle-fiord penetrates far inland between beech-clad hills, its 

 waters gradually diminishing in depth with remarkable uniformity from east to 

 west. The town of Vejle occupies a sort of isthmus of solid ground between the 

 fiord and the peat bogs which have displaced the waters of the dried-up estuary. 



