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jwft, that of purchafing a carriage, and 
travelling with poft-horles. 
moft expenfive way of travelling ; and 
though in this cafe it is ufual to difpofe 
of the carriage at Hamburg, yet it wiil 
hardly fell for half its coft. . The /econd 
mode is travelling extra-poft: and the 
third is with the common pett, which car- 
ries the mail, and which leaves Copenha- 
gen twice aweek., This Jatter is a very 
expeditious but difagreeable mode of 
travelling, as the pafiengers are allowed 
a very fhort time at each ftage for re- 
frefhment. The poft travels very quick; 
the whole journey is ufually performed, in 
fummer, in 54 hours, and the greater part 
of the way with only two horfes. But 
the mode of travelling adopted by thofe 
who have cheapnefs for their objedt, is 
by water, in a packet-boat to Kiel, and 
from thence by Jand to Hamburg. After 
examining thefe feveral modes, I preferred 
that of extra-poft, for thefe realons ; rf 
becau(e it is lefs expenfive than purchafing 
a carriage ; 2d, you are not liable to de- 
tention on the road; and, 3d, it is of 
courfe much more pleafant and agreea- 
ble than the common poft. As I withed 
to fee the country, the packet-boat was 
out of the queftion. 
‘The journey extra-poft is performed in 
an open carriage with four wheels, called 
a waggon (Dan. ‘* Woggon”’), the driver 
of which fits on a fimall feat in the front ; 
and in the body of the machine, which is 
generally hung on leather, are two or 
three feats, with room alfo for the bag- 
gage, Some of thefe carriages are well 
hung, and not inelegantly made, but in 
general little can be faid in their praife, 
They are called Holftein poft-waggons ; 
the ftyle having been brought from that 
country. The extra-poft is eftablifhed 
by the Government for the accommoda- 
tion of travellers ; the charge is regulated, 
and the driver wears the king’s livery 
(icarlet~ faced with yellow), with a fmall 
French-horn flung acrofs his fhoulder, 
which he blows when any carriages ftop 
the way, and they immediately make 
room for him to pafs. The poft-houfes 
on the road are obliged to provide horfes ; 
and in cafe the paffengers infift upon it, 
they muft not be detained more than a 
quarter of an hour at each poft-houfe. 
I left Copenhagen for Rofkild, the 8th 
of April 1796, im a hackney-coach (if 
T may be allowed the expreffion), accom- 
panied by a friend who was alfo going 
to Engiand. Thefe vehicles are as eafily 
rocured in Copenhagen as in London. 
There are about 180 in conflunt ufe ; 
Sketch of a “fourney from Copenhagen to Hamburg. 
This is the’ 
[ Aug. ¥, 
fome of which are always ready in the 
{table-yards ; the fare of them is moderate, 
the horfes are not bad, and the coachmen 
are generally very civil. They do not go 
farther from Copenhagen than to Rofkild. 
In my laft, I conduéted you to the 
King’s new market, inftead of crofling 
which diagonally to the king’s theatre, 
we, to avoid the ruins, kept to the right, 
along the fide on which is the new town, 
and pafled through Gronué-gad?é ( Anglicé 
Green ftreet). This isa fine broad ftreet, 
half a mile in length, containing fome 
handiome houfes*: it divides the old 
town, which is on the left, from the new 
town. At the upper end of this ftreet are 
the ramparts, + at the foot of which is 
a road for carriages, extending round the 
greater part of the city. We proceeded 
along this-road till we reached the Wek 
Gate, through which we pafled over the 
fofle, by means of a draw-bridge, to the 
high road. ‘The firft objet which ftrikes 
the traveller here, is the obelitk formerly 
mentioned, and a mile farther on the road 
is the Skydé-ban, called by ‘the Englith, 
the Shooting-houfe. This houfe is fitted - 
up as a place of public entertainment ; 
and is well attended, particularly on a 
Sunday-evening, by the citizens of Co- 
penhagen. Near this a very excellent 
road turns off to the right; it is broad | 
and ftraight, about a mile in length, and 
planted on each fide with a double row of 
fine trees, fomething like the Mall in St. 
James’s-park: it leads into the high road 
to Elfineur. About a mile and a half 
further, after afcending a hill, we arrived 
at the palace of Frederickfburg. Here 
- we looked back and bade farewell to Co- 
penhagen, which I could not do without 
feeling fome regret, as the Danes by their 
treatment gave me every reafon to be {a- 
tisfied with my ftay there. They are cer- 
* The reader would have a very good idea 
of Copenhagen, if he were to procure a plan 
of that city to refer to, when he perufes this 
as well as my former Sketch. Without this 
aid, I fhould defpair of making any relation 
of this kind plain or perfpicuous. 
+ The ramparts are the ufual promenade 
in the fummer feafon for the beau-monde: and 
for a trifling fum (4 or 5 rix-dollars) a ticket 
may be purchafed, which enables the pro- 
prietor to ride on horfeback on them without 
ioleftation. 
} Indeed this was the cafe on moft parts 
.of the Continent, before this deftruétive 
War and its attendant confequences cut: off 
all direct communication of the greater part 
of it with England, 
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