DENMARK, 



disposed of at the will of their lords. The late count BernstorfF, 

 however, set a truly noble example by the emancipation of lus tenants ; 

 and the prince-royal, in whom the administration of the government 

 is now vested, has also had the magnanimity and true policy to give 

 liberty to all the peasants of the crown. b 



Vegetable productions, animals. ...Jutland contains woods of 

 oak, fir, beech, birch, and other trees. Denmark and Holstein pro- 

 duce corn in such abundance, as often to be able to export in one year 

 to the value of above 100,000/. ; they also produce rape-seed, hops, 

 and flax. The horses ot Denmark and Holstein are an excellent 

 breed, both for the saddle and the carriage. Besides great numbers 

 of black-cattie, of which about 80,000 head are generally exported 

 annually, they have hogs, sheep, and game. The sea-coasts abound 

 with various kinds ot fish. 



Curiosities, natural and artificial. ...Denmark Proper affords 

 fewer of these than the other parts of his Danish majesty's dominions, 

 if we except the contents of the Royal Museum at Copenhagen, 

 which consists of a numerous collection of both. Here are preserved 

 two famous antique drinking vessels, the one of gold, the other of 

 silver, and both of the form of hunting horns. That of gold is about 

 two feet nine inches long, weighs 102 ounces, contains two English 

 pints and a half, and was found in the diocese of Ripen, in 1639. The 

 other, of silver, weighs about four pounds, and is called the Olden- 

 burg Horn, because, as tradition affirms, it was presented to Otho, 

 the first duke of Oldenburg, by a ghost. This museum contains a 

 fine collection of paintings, and another of coins, as also a great num- 

 ber of astronomical, optical, and mathematical instruments. 



Population. ...By an actual enumeration made in 1759, of his Da- 

 nish majesty's subjects in his dominions of Denmark, Norway, Hol- 

 stein, the islands in the Baltic, and the counties of Oldenburg and 

 Delmenhorst in Westphalia, they were said to amount to 2,444,000 

 souls, exclusive of the Icelanders and Greenlanders. The most ac- 

 curate account of the population is that made under the direction of 

 the famous Struensee, in 1769, by which 

 Jutland numbered - - 358,136 Iceland ----- 46,201 



Zealand 283,466 Duchy of Sleswick - - 243,605 



Funen 143,988 Duchy of Holstein - - 134,665 



Norway 723,141 Oldenburg - - - - 62,854 



Islands of Ferro - - 4,754 Delmenhorst - - - - 16,217 



Sum Total 2,017,027 



Since this estimate was taken, the counties of Oldenburg and Del- 

 menhorst have been exchanged for the remainder of Holstein ; and 

 the population of the Danish dominions in Europe is thus given in 

 Bcetticher's tables : 



345,740 i The duchy of Sleswick 251,230 



The diocese of Zealand 



Funen 151,512 



r Aarhuys 125,282 



Jutland) ^P en J^86 



J Aalborg 71,242 



( Viborg 53,488 



Holstein 311,753 



The kingdom of Norway 700,000 

 The Ferro islands 5,000 



Iceland 50,000 



Sum Total 2,148,438 



The population of Denmark Proper, or Jutland, Sleswick, and the 



