DENMARK, 
With regard to agriculture, Denmark and Holftein pro- 
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countries to the 
1803, an a eape Ww 
hagen towards cultivating ‘madder. 
uncommonly weli, though it ftood a fevere winter. 
areolar 
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land is compared by Mr. NV 
Since the emancipation of the peafants, agriculture, in all 
its branches, has been rapidly improving in Denmark. B 
ale ee farmers are chiefly known as excellent graziers. 
ark fupplies Germany, France, Ruffia, and Sweden 
with eee for both heavy and light cavalry, befides coach- 
Thofe of Zealand, Funen, Jutland, Slefwick, and 
The ansual amount of the 
reckoned 200,000/. fterling. Biack cattle 
ofland. Many thoufands 
of oxen. after they have been fattened in the marth lands, are 
fent to the German markets It-beef, butter, and cheefe, 
Live 
Ww 
they counted in Den- 
eft wool is that near Eyder- 
Horticulture is very much encouraged in Denmark. 
vernment furnifhes the farmers gratis with fruit trees from 
the royal nurferies 
In the beginni sing of the eighteenth century, Denmark 
a hala manufaGtures. It was only at the e:d 
ern war that Frederick IV. could ferioufly 
into his domi- 
felf in 1 promoting their fuccefs. 
filks, and other articles, was ftriG&ly prohibited. 
ment fas continued ever fince to fpur the induftry of t 
Danes. From the year 1736 to 1774 not lefs than 800,000 
dollars have been {pent on the encouragement of manufac- 
fumptuary laws. 
ee for the home 
cloth is wove in eel places, yet Denmark is 
hird of the coarfe and almoft all the 
However {pinning fchools, 
and premiums awarded to the beft fpinners and weavers, 
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manufaCtured in fuflicient quantity. 
fagtures, see of the Goldhoufe at Copenhagen, which is @ 
cae her in ne where sa! a oe village Shae es an- 
The tik manufacturers 
more extenfiv the importation 
priats 18 all prohibited. The thre 
ef Tondern, which was begun in 1646, ae civ fgily 
Dutch thread, though not fo eo ga te as formerly, 
gives {till employment to 10,000 hands. Paper miils are 
not yet fufficient for the home-confumption. 
ports aaa 100.000 daliars worth of foreign sae 
New mills are however every day eftablifhed, and the 
ae of rags has been ftoppe ed. 
ark 1 cla asa fupplied with tanners ard 
there curriers, chiefly be : et Altona. “ee leather 
gloves, which are principally m e at Oden are famous 
all over Piece he Goscnele of the feailice at this place 
is fuppofed to arife from a certain pr a in the river wa- 
ter, in which it is foaked, fortauning. The manu laccures of 
earthen ware flourifh moft at Aarhuus and Rypen, which 
fend their pottery into feveral parts of Germany. The 
royal china manufa@ture of Copenhagen makes a 
ware, but it {till wants the affiftance of government. 
till os 
as 277 185,539 dollars 
could be difpofed of. ‘Phere are feveral fugar refiners, 
copper, brafs, and iron works, and cannon founderies. 
so) 
a 
an ount 
ear Elfineur, furnithes the 
t 
chimmelmann’s manufa@tory, n 
It fabricates an- 
army with mufkcts, bayonets, a fabres. 
nually 3500 mulkets. 
Ancientiy the whole trade of Denmark was carried.gn ex. 
clufively by the Hanfeatic towns. ‘Their firft competitors 
were the Dutch, and afterwards in fome degree the Englifh. 
rine th. Pare extended under 
Chriftian VI., and was at Lier adnan height in 1792, if an 
number of merchant veffels. 
l 
2053, 10 1792 to 3331, and in 1799 only to 2173. it 
ought to be remembered that OL tonnage of fhips has been 
of late yeas every where incréafed. 
The trade of Denmark, with its dependencies and colo- 
nies,. is  onfiderable. “That with Iceland, which. had long 
been clogged by reftri€tions, exclufive companies, and mono 
polies of the crown, has been aa within the laf five and 
twenty years, fince it has been a free trade. It employs 
now from 60 to 70 veffels, and is aa on in Danifh bot- 
toms only. “The trade to the Faro iflands, which within 
the laft fifteen years has been opened to all Danith fubjecs, 
employs but a few veflels. ‘That to Finmark has alfo been 
allowed free to all Danith fubjects fince 1789, and bi 
e 
ehange their fifh, oil, 3y 
manufactures of Europ fome colonial produce 
the whale fishery conftates the principal part of the Cran 
pe ipa The trade to Norway is moftly a paffive one in 
The Danifh north and Iceland. 
compan es are bot 
The trade to - Eat Indies is in the hands’ of a privie. 
leged company, not exclufively. Private individuals 
may fit out veflels es the Eaft Indies and China, on their- 
eight from other ports in the Ea 
1799, the yeturn cargoes for private account were thicteen: 
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