86 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



water lagoon, about twenty miles in length, shut in from the 

 North Sea by a narrow tongue of sand-hills, and emptying by a 

 very narrow and partly artificial outlet (Nymindegab) afc its 

 south-west corner. Into its southern part projects a promontory, 

 about three miles long and one broad, called Tipperne (The 

 Tips).* This peninsula, little raised above the level of the 

 Fjord, and itself almost a dead level, is clothed with verdure of 

 the deepest green, almost without a flower (in May)! or a stone. 

 In places it is bordered by muddy reed-bedB, and intersected by 

 channels of no great depth, while here and there on its surface 

 are very shallow sheets of water. The Fjord itself is very 

 shallow, never attaining twenty feet in depth. Much of it is 

 not over knee-deep, and for long distances a cart can be driven 

 through it. The depth, however, varies somewhat with the 

 state of the Fjord's principal feeder, the Skjernaa, a sluggish 

 stream, which, flowing in many channels, enters it from the 

 east, and also with the condition of the outlet, which is liable to 

 be choked by sand from the outer sea. 



On a fine day in May the landscapes of the Fjord are 

 charming in their lonely simplicity. The level tongue of Tip- 

 perne, freshly green, stretches far away amid shining waters, 

 across which, on the east, the low mainland shores are backed 

 by cultivated country, bare of trees, but sprinkled with small 

 farms, where the high white churches of Stavning and Veiling 

 are conspicuous, and, far away to the north, the grouped houses 

 of the little market town of Eingkjobing, no longer a seaport 

 for vessels of any size. To the west, all along the horizon, lies 

 the serrated line of the dunes on Holmslands Klit, the sand-spit 

 which parts the quiet broad from the North Sea. On Tipperne 

 itself there is hardly a sign of human occupation, but one sub- 

 interesting monograph of Dr. Earnbusch, ' Studier over Eingkjobing Fjord,' 

 Copenhagen, 1900. A copy of this book was kindly sent rne by my friend 

 Hr. A. Hansen, of Eanders. 



* I believe this name applies strictly only to the four extremities of the 

 peninsula. " Store Tip" and " Lille Tip." 



f Hr. Mentz (in Earnbusch) says that the dominant constituent of this 

 green carpet is Juncus Gerardi (Harrilgraes), associated with Agrostis alba 

 and Festuca rubra. In the late summer Aster tripolium flowers very pro- 

 fusely. 



