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DENMARK. 
in which ae Danes had -g0 killed and $8 wounded. As 
the fhip had been 1un afhore, fhe was (et on fire ard burnt. 
Thus the Danith navy was reduced to one fingle fhip of the 
line, 
Tn the mean time 13000 Spanifh, 10,000 French, and 5cOD 
args troops, entered the Danits continental ae to 
ult the Danes, and 387 veflels were taken up for t 
fion of Sweden. Several privateers haraficd the Ey sith 
traders in the Baltic, and committed fuccefsful depredations. 
Trequent engagements took place between Danifh gun-boats 
i i The Swedes, under baron Armftldt, en- 
ay) 
‘ 
ttrong Englith arma- 
ment, und e command of fir James Saumarez, prevented 
the intended attack upon S n Bernad: atte co omplained 
part of Slefwick, and the Danifh soliethone i int ce E tak aa 
Welt Indies, were occupied by Englith troop 
For the remainder of the hikory of on ak from the 
ect of July 1808, fee oe 
oundaries of Denmark Proper are, the river Eyder 
to the fouth which divides ‘t rom Holttein, and arfquens iy 
fi ermany; to t he erman 
the 
north that part of the north fea which is called the Cae 
apd Shaggerack, by which it is divided from Fonwey and 
to. the ealt that inlet into the Baltic fea, known b the 
name of. ee ieee or Ore-Sound, which divides Deir 
fom, Swe 
--The ex ane of aioe Proper is ey 4964 Englith 
fquare | rail iles, It is divided into two parts, the peninfula _ 
Jutland, sccatly called ee Cimbrica, and th 
ifland ntrance of the Bal 
Jutland was Sanciently divided ms North and South Jut- 
land ; but the former is now fimply called Jutland, and the 
latter Slefwick, which fee. 
he iflands at the entrance of the Baltic are two large 
— eraeanes 
5 s 6 beet 
7000. ie 948 forathips, and. I 
‘T-he. principal pee are Gopcthag Tietue, BiGaccr, 
Slefwick,.and Ode 
The climate of Denmark Proper is variable and moif, but 
rather temperate.on account of the vapours of the furround- 
is fometimes 
t 
eres carriages. 
rtile in grain and 
wic cle | is expofed to the 
banked at a very great expence, and thefe embankments are 
aaa extended. e land which the fea leaves behind is 
uncommonly fertile, and is called doog. The appearance of 
lo here are but a few 
ft ; he ¢ 
and.Jakes. Denmark has alfo many little “ihe ms which in 
terfe& the.country in various direGione. '{'wo m, the 
Guden, and the Eyder, deferve the name of rivers. In th 
northern part, a large creek of the fea called the Lymfiord, 
qeende s from the Cattegat through more than feventy Eng- 
Lith miles. I¢ is navigable, and contains numerous {mall 
iflands. The Baltic and the North a contmtisica’e by 
three great inlets acrofs Denmark Proper, onits northerm 
frontier, viz. the Sourd, the Great Beit, and the Little Belt. 
The diftance from Elfinevr to Helfinborg é Th Sweden, acruis 
the Sound, is 1331 fathoms, or about 24 Engl th 
tween Copenhagen and Mah o@ in Swedes, the aire i 
there is another pailage between 
Middlefarth one Sno: glicy, which ts not quite two Enghth 
iles, 
Denmark has an extenfive fca-coaft; which, befides yielding” 
a little andr, abounds in oytters, mutcles and nontes and 
affords wicommon conveniencies fore Vhe roads are not 
very good; the turnpike roads been ouly on: go miles 
from 
openhagen. 
The e population of Denmark, including Norway, Iceland, 
Greenland, and the l'aro iflands, amounts to two eillioua 
and a half, a 
Dace Pr oper counts 
Slefwick and Holttcin 
Norway, Iceland, &c. oo 
Trom 1769 to ae a whole Popul tion had been in= 
creafed by 220,000 fou The afnual ay “erage furplus of 
the born over the dead is oe 12 se 20,060, 
a inhabitants. 
20,C00 
n 1794, the = were ; 
Of the born in pe k Pro 275539 Dead 25.95 
Sete and Hla se 14,306 
way, Iceland, &c. ae 175344 
Born 73, 250 Dead 57,606 
57:66 
Surplus 15,644 
In 1806 the numbers were ; 
OF the born in Cael Prep 29.9649 Dead 22,588 
le{wi wick and Lo ‘Ifte in 18,533 14,635 
Norway, fecise &e. 26 aT pee 
Born 
ee Dead 55, 75 
557 
- Surplus 194554 
The language of Denmark is that rare of the Teu- 
tonic, which fs called the sour 
little from the Swed th ty tue ae 
o arife from g to 
by the Danes. The pieraneiiice of the Nor 
nearer that of the Swedes. There is befides a 
in the pin 
that the Danes ie as any prid 
oyfter b:nks, which extend from 
Ry ie to Heiligeland, are let to farmers on account of the 
Ow 
3 Wh 
