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milps IVom cacli oilier, and, wlieie the distance Is greater, dealers 
settle in the country to purchase the produce from the farmer, or 
take it in exchange for other goods. 
Tluis, the farmer will seldom be at a greater distance than 8 
or 12 English miles from the nearest market and place of ship- 
ment ; it is true that the farthest point liom the sea is about 32 
miles, but nearly everywhere the land is intersected by bays or 
inlets irom the sea, which are navigable for small vessels far up 
the country, and considerably facilitate communication and 
exportation. 
These harbours and places of shipment, combined with excellent 
roads, as improved within ten or twenty years, go far to account 
for the non-existence of railways in Jutland up to the present 
moment. One line is, however, now to be established, the im- 
portance of which for the agriculture of that province may be 
viewed apart from its value as an investment. 
Before the meeting of the late Diet the Government had 
granted the concession of a line of railway to Sir Morton Peto, 
which has now been commenced. This line is from Aarhuus to 
Braband, thence to Randers, Langaa, Viborg, Skive, and Struer; 
it will, however, probably not be carried beyond Skive. During 
the Session of the Diet two other lines were proposed ; one from 
Randers, along the rivulet " Gudenaa," to Tange, with a branch to 
Viborg, thence to Linaa and Rye, with a branch to Aarhuus, and 
a prospect of an extension in the direction of Flensburg, whence a 
railway already runs to Altona. This line had the support of the 
majority of the Diet, but was opposed and rejected by Govern- 
ment. 
The other or, as it is called, the " East Coast " line was to 
have this direction, viz. — from Aarhuus to Braband, thence to 
Langaa, with a branch to Viborg, Randers, and Hobro : the 
projectors of this line proposed to extend it northward to Fre- 
derickshavn, and southward to Fredericia, in conjunction with a 
contemplated line through the island of Funen. The minority 
of the Diet voted for this line, and it was rejected. The main 
opposition to the first or " Gudenaa " line seems to have arisen 
from a fear of placing Jutland in direct railway connexion with 
Hamburg, whereby its trade would be carried to that place 
instead of to the Danish islands ; the objection to the " East 
Coast " line is that it favours the richer part of the province at the 
expense of the more barren, and will not advance the interest of 
the province at large. 
Neither line can perhaps be expected to pay until the net- 
work of railways is more complete, and especially until it 
IS placed in direct communication either with Hamburg or 
some port on the west coast of Sleswig which could serve 
