DENMARK. 



THE dominions of his Danish majesty, in Europe, eonsist of Den- 

 mark Proper, or the peninsula of Jutland and the islands in the Baltic ; 

 the duchy of Holstein in Germany ; the islands of Iceland ; and Da- 

 nish Lapland or Finmark. The dimensions and chief towns of these 

 countries are given in the following table. 











Square 





iS 





Miles. 



c 



cu 







tl 



« 



Jutland .... 



6.866 



155 



98 



Sltswiek 









2,040 



70 



63 



Holstein 









2,768 



90 



50 



Zealand 









2,112 



60 



60 



Funen . 









1,376 



40 



30 



Falster 









150 



23 



12 



Lapland 









240 



32 



12 



Langeland 









70 



30 



3 



Femeren 









50 



14 



5 



Alsen 









54 



IS 



6 



Moen . , 









40 



14 



5 



Bornholm . 









160 



20 



12 



Iceland 









43,264 



350 



240 



Norway 









112.000 



910 



170 



Danish Lapland 









28,000 



280 



170 



Chief Towns. 



Viborg . .... 



Sleswick. . - . » . 



gXt ^.Latitude, 55. 41. 

 Odlnse! g IE. Longitude, 12.35. 

 Nyekiobing. .... 



Naskow 



Rudkioping. . 



Burg 



Sunclerborge .... 



Stege. 



Ronne ..... 



Skaiholt ..... 



Bergen 



Wardhuys 



DENMARK PROPER. OR THE PENINSULA OF JUTLAND, 

 INCLUDING THE ISLANDS IN THE BALTIC. 



EXTENT AND SITUATION. 

 Miles. 

 Length 240*} . C 54° 10' and 57° 45' north latitude. 



Breadth 114 $ Detween £ 8° 10' and 12° 40' east longitude. 

 Containing 12,896 square miles, with 84 inhabitants to each. 

 Name. ...The name of Denmark is derived by Saxo Grammatieus 

 from Dan, the first founder, according to him, of the Danish monarchy ; 

 and Mark, a boundary or country. But this etymology is probably 

 fabulous ; all we know with certainty is, that the inhabitants of this 

 part of Scandinavia were known by the name of Danes in the sixth 

 century. 



Boundaries and divisions. ...Denmark is divided on the north 

 from Norway by the Scaggerac Sea, and from Sweden on the east by 

 the Sound ; it is bounded on the south by Germany and the Baltic ; 

 and the German Sea divides it from Great Britain on the west. 



Denmark proper is divided into two parts; the peninsula of Jut- 

 land, anciently called Chersonesus Cimbrica, and the islands at the 

 entrance of the Baltic mentioned in the table. It is remarkable, that, 

 though all these together constitute the kingdom of Denmark, yet 

 not any one of them is separately called by that name. Copenhagen, 

 the metropolis, is in the island of Zealand. 



The Danish peninsula was formerly denominated Jutland, and di- 

 vided into two parts. ...North Jutland and South Jutland. The former 



* These dimensions are those of the peninsula of Jutland only, where longest 

 and broadest, in which sense they are always to be understood in this work. Jut- 

 land, for ins aice, is 114 miles in breadth where broadest; though in some parts 

 it is not more than 30. 



