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CHAPTER XIX. 
IMPRESSIONS OF DENMARK. 
I. The Cornlands and Heaths. 
Denmark lias been described as a country of much 
waste land, of wide heaths and so on; it was, moreover, 
the only country of western Europe of which I had then 
(1889) seen nothing, and I decided to “prospect” it, 
en route to Sweden. 
Twenty-eight hours after leaving the Tyne, the sand- 
dunes of Jutland and the low-lying shores of the Frisian 
Islands rose before us from a summer sea. 
It was but a flying visit to the Cimbrian Peninsula,, 
and impressions here recorded (though confirmed by a 
subsequent journey in 1893) are given for what they 
are worth ; yet in traversing the whole country, from 
the frontiers of Schleswig-Holstein to the Scaw, we 
at least enjoyed a superficial survey of the physical 
features and conformation of the Danish kingdom. 
Denmark is a plain, flat as Holland, treeless and 
featureless. Save for their Himmelberg, of which the 
Danes are proud as of an Everest, though it only reaches 
five-hundred feet, the bulk of the peninsula would 
be submerged by a fifteen-fathom’s rise in the North Sea. 
Worse than this—I write as a naturalist—it is all petty 
