1803.] 
Does not thy patriot-bofom fwell, | 
Where thou fit’st in immortal day, 
To fee thy country thus, O Tell, 
_ Of. Gallia’s lawlefs fons the prey. 
-Infufethy foul in fome bold heart, 
That he mayrife all-great like chee, 
Again my freedom to affert, — 
And from oppreffion hail me free, 
May 8, 1803. 
—— 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
ACCOUNT of alate PEDESTRIAN JOUR- 
NEY from HAMBURG to LUBEC, 7 @ 
LETTER 0a FRIEND i” LONDON. 
pr Ui you have often afked me for the 
particulars of fome of my journeys, 
I fend you this defultory account of a 
ramble Ihave begun, on foot ; which me- 
thod of -travelling I have never. be- 
fore this time adopted on the continent, 
though I have often defired it ; but meet- 
ing with a countryman inclined to accom- 
pany me, we marked out a tour of about 
one hundred miles, Englifh—made a com- 
mon purfe, of which I was treafurer—and 
on the rgth, in the afternoon, paffed the 
gate of Hamburg called the Stein-door, 
which leads to a populous fuburb called 
St. Geerge,- which hasa handfome church 
and a theatre, and is graced with nume- 
rous country-houfes of the Hamburgers, 
which, except a row on the fide of the Al- 
fter, differ very little from the wider 
ftreets in the town, there being pavement 
throughout moft of the diltriét, and ano- 
ther rampart, without excluding ail ap- 
pearance of rurality, After pafling two 
other gates and a barrier, we gota fight 
of the country, which, thougn not. the 
moft fmiling, excited pleafant ideas in 
people who had been pent up in Ham- 
burg for a fortnight. What end is an- 
fweied by thefe triple mounds and matfly. 
gates, for which a fimple barrier would 
not be equality efficient, I leave to others 
to difcover ; nor will I expofe my own 
ignorance in attempting toedify you with 
a defcription of their form and defign, but 
‘content myfelf with faying, that nothing 
can furpals the attention of the Ham- 
burghers to thefe apparent means of de- 
fence, except it be the facility with which 
they abandon them on the approach of an 
enemy. y 
The foil of the territory of Hamburg, 
immediately furrounding it, is adeep and, 
which Nature feemed to have defigned as 
a contraft to the fertile diftriét to the 
north-eaft. The roads are paved, nearly 
as far as Hamburg’s territory extends, 
with ftones of fuch unequal fize, and, in 
fome places, in {uch ill-repair, as to expole 
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the hafty traveller in the carriages of the 
country to the conftant danger of contu- 
fion or diflocation. ‘Thele ftone-ways are 
continued in fome direétions for many” 
miles together ; and where they ceafe, the 
road is moftly fuch as it came from the 
hand of Nature—adcep fand, and if the 
traveller be in hafte to reach the place of 
his deftination, and have known the luxu- 
ry of an Enelifh poft-chaife and Englith 
roads, woe be to him! 
The German miles are of two defcrip- 
tions, the long mile, of which there are 
twelveto a degree, which are equal to fif. 
teen fhort miles. Thefe long miles are 
divided into two hours and-in a journey 
of feveral hundred miles Englith, I found 
but two or three inftances where it was 
poffible, by money and good words, to 
get on fafter than the common rate. 
But to proceed on our more humble 
journey.— After walking about two miles, 
we paffed the Hamburg barrier, which di- 
vides it from Holfiein, and croffing a fandy 
common, of which great part is now in 
cultivation, w® entered Wandfbeck, a 
{mall townin the provottthip of Segeberg, 
deriving its name frem its pofition, Wand 
hgnifying partition, and beck a brook, in 
which fenfe that word is ftill ufed in the 
Worthof England. It has a manufattory 
fof ftoves, a calico-printing-ground, and 
a wax-bleachery. A Danifh lottery is alfo 
drawn kere in rotation ; but the principal 
thing for which Wandfbeck is diftinguith- 
ed, is as a retreat for ihe wealthy Ham- 
burgers; fome of. whom have Splendid 
manfions here, and for the plefure-houfes 
open to all, waich on Sundays and holi- 
days are crowded within doors and with- 
out, Count Schimmelman, a Danifh Lord, 
whofe father was finance-minifter at Co- 
penhagen, has a houfe and garden, with 
a wood behind : the wood and garden are 
open to the public, and the few fatues 
milerably mutilated. The church is a 
neat building, with a handfome fpire, and 
behind it is a maufoleum, in which, ac- 
cording to the materialifts, repofes the 
fum-total of the financier above-mention- 
ed, and his wife. ItJooks as if his fuc- 
ceffor had been afraid of his rifing and dif 
turbing him in his poficflions ; for in the 
fituation and’ appearance of the wisdows, 
as well.as its relative proportions, it very 
much refembles Howard’s folitary cells.- 
We were detained at Wandbeck all 
night by the rain, and in the morning ear- 
ly ftarted for Abrenfberg, leaving. the 
high-road to Lubec on our right. We 
had repeated dtorms of hail and rain, 
which induced us to take fhelter feveral 
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