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pround fet apart for meadow and pafture. 
“Zealand is lefs populous in proportion 
than Fiinen, which contains about 150,000 
inhabitants. We arrived at Odenfee, 
“which is feventeen miles from Nyeborg, 
in four Hours, and were glad to find good 
accommodations at the poft-houfe, where 
_we ftopped to refrefh curfelves, and change. 
horfes. 
We ran through Odenfee, which is a 
large and populous town, and has much 
more appearance of trade than any we had 
pafled through fince we left Copenha- 
gene. 
itfelf into a bay in the Cattegat: its chief 
commerce confifts in a leather manufac- 
tory of army accoutrements; there are 
alfo feveral mills for grinding corn, and 
three or four large breweries. ‘The beer 
which is brewed here 1s as good as any in 
Denmark ; indeed the Danifh ftrong-beer is 
fometimes excellent, and when bottled and 
kept, it is nearly equal to London porter*. 
It is exported to the Danith fettlements 
in the Eaft and Weft Indies, and thefe hot 
climates greatly improve its flavour. 
Odenfee has three churches, and a town- 
houfe, where the ftates of the kingdom for- 
merly met to chufe a king, before the 
crown was made hereditary. In 1658, the 
Swedes poffeffed the ifland of Finen, 
which they evacuated at the treaty of 
Rofkild. King Charles Guftavus had his 
head quarters here. There are feveral 
printing-houfes in this town, and two 
newlpapers are publifhed during the 
weeky. . 
The next ftage is Affens, which is 
twenty-two miles from Qdenfee. The 
beginning of the road of this flage is 
good, and the country is well cultivated ; 
many gentlemen of refpectability have 
country-feats about this part of the ifland, 
which have a pleafing effect on the fur- 
rounding {cenery. We had not proceeded 
far on this road, before we were furprifed 
and gratified, in feeing the fields for feve- 
ral miles round us covered with poultry, 
particularly with geefe, and an innume- 
yable quantity of goflings. About feven 
miles from Odenfee is thé fmall village of 
- Dalem; here the roads begin to lofe their 
* IT fpeak of London porter in former times, 
I do not mezn to degrade the Danifh frong- 
beer, by a conarifon with the execrable 
trafh that is now (1801) retailed- under the 
name of porterin London. tay 
+ For a good account of the Danifh newf- 
_ papers, fee the Monthly Magazine for April, 
1800, Syek ame 
Sketch of a Fourney from Copenhagen to Hamburg. 
It lies on ariver, which difcharges, 
[Sept. 1, 
{moothnefs and confiftency, and for the laft 
nine or ten miles they are very heavy. We 
drove into Affens in the evening, almoit 
as weary as our horfes, which had run all 
the way from Odenfee. 
Afens is a {mall town lying on the Little 
Belt, chiefly inhabited by fifhermen. We 
ordered our boat, and immediately as we 
had drank our coffee, we ftepped into it, 
and in two hours landed on the continent, 
in the province of South Jutland, or 
duchy of Slefwick, at a fmall place called 
Aaresiind, the diftance of which from Af 
fens is ten miles. 
~ We found it would be difficult to pro- 
cure poft-horfes this evening, and there- 
fore, at the folicitation of our landlord, 
we took up our lodging here for the 
night’; he promifed that our fupper and 
accommodations fhould repay us for our — 
time, and he was as good as his word. 
We afterwards learned, that it was cufto- 
mary for the boats to go up to Hader- 
fleben; but it being night, our boat- 
men withing to fave themfelves trouble, © 
landed us here, not perhaps without the 
concurrence of our inn-keeper. 
We had now taken our leave of the 
Danifh iflands, and we found that Danifh 
money would no longer pafs current, ex- 
cept at this place, which has a direct com-: 
munication with Funen: we were prepar- 
ed for this, and had accordingly fupplied 
ourfelves at Copenhagen with dollars, 
called Slefwick and Holftemn fpecie-dol- 
lars ; a filver-coin, with much alloy, 
which pafles for about 4s. 6d. fterling. 
This coin has a general circulation all 
over Slefwick and Holftein, even includ- 
ing Hamburg itfelf. The fpecie-dollar is 
divided into halves, quarters, &c. On the 
journey from Copenhagen to this place, 
the regular charge for a waggon and two 
horfes is three marks, eight fkillings Danifh 
currency (i. e. 25. 4d. fterling), per Da- 
nifh mile: for the paflage of the Great 
Belt, we paid fix rix-dollars, four marks 
(i. e. 26s. 8d. fterling) ; and for the paf- 
face of the Little Belt two rix-dollars : 
making in the whole, for a journey of 
144 miles, 4]. 115. fterling, not reckoning 
the expences on the road, at the inns, &c. 
which are in general very moderate. 
Aaresiind is not laid down on the maps 
which I have feen of this country ;' it lies 
at the mouth of afmall river, and contains 
only abou: half a dozen houfes, of which 
the inn makes by far the moft refpectable 
appearance. The mafter of it, a very 
civil man, informed. us he -had been in 
England, and that he had cultivated his 
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