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times ; but we could procure nothing but 
corn-foirit and black bread at the houfes 
wicie we flopped, till we were about eight 
miles on our way, when we got fome cof- 
fee, aiter which the /zaps, as they calla 
fmal! dram, was not unacceptable. Mott 
ef «he pealants whole houles we vifited 
on our rou'e either from curiofity or ne- 
ceflity, fold {pirits, of which, except near 
the grea er towns, they fell a finall glafs 
for a haifpenny. The houfe of the pea- 
fant where we got coffee, was poorly fur- 
nifi-d, and dirty in the extreme, and the 
hot and hofte{s rather churlifh; but the 
furtoner xe receded from the boundartes, 
the foilimproved, the peafants were more 
courteous, and their houfes and imple- 
ments of hufbendry in better order. Ap- 
proaching Ahrenfberg through an avenue 
of Lindea-trees, we law a fine wood about 
half a mile on the right, with a lake at 
the bottom of the flope, and about noon 
reached our inn. where we fsund fome 
coid meat and Gerinan faulages, a very 
acceprobte offering td our Rerachs. The 
Fandiord fpoke Engh th, and told us that he 
had lived beth in London and Wind for, 
of which he ga 
tory proof, by charging neaily twice as 
much as he ought to have done. Here ts 
2 houfe of Count Schiinmelman’s brother, 
In very good repair, and the grounds 
about it ina high ate of cultivation, as 
indeed is the land ail. round the place.— 
The field befide the church was covered 
with the fine herbage I have feen this 
year. The gardens of the chdceau are 
e tenfive, and laid out in the old Enelifh 
ityle. 
From hence to Oldefloh, fifteen miles, 
the foil varies feveral tunes from Joam to 
fand, but the agriculture, as we advan- 
eed, was ftill improving. We croffed, 
aout four miles before we reachedOlderi- 
foh, a fmall river called the Barnitz, by a 
neit ftone bridge of one arch, which is 
a noveity in this country, there . being 
fcarcely a ftone bridge to be feen in this 
part of the continent that is not of late 
ercftion. We faw in one or twoinftances 
very fair fpecimens of irrigation, by con- 
ducting the fprings frem. the higher 
ounds in fuch an oblique direétion, as 
t> overflow the floping meadow at plea- 
fare. The point in which they appeared 
moit deficiznt was in managing their ma- 
Hure; for though they feemed very at- 
tentive to the coll<&ting what is made by 
the catt!e, they have no notion of increal- 
ing it by aiding any other fubftances. The 
coxs and horfes lie on the bare ground, for 
want o: firaw, as they alleged, which is 
Pedeftrian Fournep from Hamburg to Lubec. 
ve us not aveiy fatisiac-. 
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exceffively dear; but all the neighbour- 
ing woods frrnifh them an opportunity of 
repairing that Geficiency. It may feem 
itrange to an Englifh traveller to be told, 
that in pafling the woods, in the menth of 
April, we were much incommoded by the 
fa!ien leaves, which in many places ob- 
fcured the »ath more effe€tually than fnow, 
as the p2fiing traveller leaves no traces 
behind him, and beneath which ‘the trea- 
cherous bog 1s equally undifcoverable— 
The trofts, which rapidly fucceed the fall 
_of the leaf, arreft the progrefs of fermenta- 
tion, or rather prevent its commence- 
ment ; for the leaves exhibited no figns of 
decay, and, in the event of a dry (pring, 
mix with the fading honours of the fuc- 
ceeding autumn. Were the peafants to 
colle&t and mix them with their horfe aad 
cow-dung, it would ceriainly be time 
very well beftowed. The ftyle of build- 
ing is the fame as in Weitphalia, one large 
roof, delcending within a few feet of the 
ground, covers the whole family and ftack 
together. At one end isa pair of great 
gates, on entering which you have the 
borfes and cows on each fide, with their 
heads towards you, tethered with a {mall - 
chain to the manger, which is generally 
well-fupplicd with cut chaff. Over them 
is a.floor, or wide fhelf, on which are 
piled vegetable proyifion both for man and | 
beaft. In the middle are waggons and 
implem-nts of huibandry, and fronting 
you is thefire-place, the {moke of which 
takes a meandering courfe among the raf- 
ter where harig their bacon and other pro- 
vifion. On one fide of the fire-place, and 
fometimes on both, a lath and plafter par- 
tition divides off a portion of the build- 
ing, in which the family eat and fleep.— 
The fervants, where there is wealth 
enough to make a diftinétion between maf- 
ter and man, eat before the great fire- 
place, and fleep in nooks and corners 
round about it. On the fouth fide a {mall 
door opens into the gardens, and, from 
the appearance anc the excelient vegetables 
we talied, they are no contemptible pro- | 
ficients in horticulture. On entering Ol- 
derfloh, we obierved a fucceffion of lofty 
buildings of a fingular conftru€tion, the 
purpofe of which we could not devife, 
which occupied a confiderable tract of 
ground to the right, which we afterwards 
found belonged to the falt- works there.— 
We proceeded through the town, and af- 
ter a little inquiry found the principal inn, 
whence, having taken fome coffee, we 
{allied to view the place. The fireets are 
os regular, the. houfes of brick, 
with their gable. ends to the ftreet, agree~ 
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