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with two tables of the fame wood. In 
the adjoining chambers were to be feen 
beds with curtainsof handfome chintz; the 
linen appeared to be of the fineft cloth. 
I lay, (‘ays he,) at Slefwick, in a room 
hung with Chinefé filk. I found at Flenf- 
burgh, at Plon, and other places, tables 
richly fpread with porcelain vafes, that 
could be only confidered as objeéts of 
luxury. It is true, that in all thefe inns, 
living is not very cheap—but neither is 
it exceffively dear. The price of eatables 
3s much higher in the North of Germany 
than in the South. 
«* At this moment, I am on the Great. 
Belt, (exclaims M. Kuttner, to one of his 
friends.) During four years together, that 
I have kept up aregular correfpondence 
with you, it has never yet been my ht 
to write to you from fhip-board, although 
Ihave made a number of fea-voyages ; 
but, for the mof part I was on the dif- 
ferent coafts of Great Britain, which bear 
very little refemblance to that wherein I 
am now cradled fo foftly. As hicherto.I 
have found every,thing in the North, more 
agreeable and engaging than I had ex- 
pected; I jikewife find the fea much 
more gentle than I had fuppofed. The 
Baltic, as you know, has neither fux nor 
reflux, and confequently, it does not 
give thips in a calm that difagreeabie 
movement which always made me fea-fick 
on the Britith coafs. 
“« The iflands, the bays, the promon- 
tories, (continues this writer,) appear 
more and more itriking. The fea is, at 
this inftant, like a mirrour, the air calm, 
the fun warm and agreeable. While writ- 
ing this, I am feaied in my voiture, a 
cajeite or writing-box on my knees, and I 
icc] hardly any motion; there only wants 
one circumftance to render the icene a 
claffical one, that it was not here that the 
heroes of Homer and Virgil wandered, 
landed, ravaged, atchieved their exploits, 
and profecuted ther memorable adven- 
tures."°-——The author croffed the Belt in 
the height of fummer; and the Profeffor 
adds: <¢ We fhall confront him with the 
mythology of the North, the Icelandic 
Sagas, filled with high exploits and great 
adventures, to prove that it requires a 
milder and happier climate to 2nimate and 
exzlc the poetic vem of a Homer, anda 
Virgil.” 
It is about fix miles from Middlefart to 
Odenjee, the capital of Fionia; this is a 
pretty large town, but nct yery populous, 
and the butidings announce nothing of 
grandeur. There iefide here, however, 
during the winter, a pretty numerous 
i 
Tour in Denmark.=-Ceffion of Louifianai 
{ April 1; 
nobleffe, and this metropolis is the only 
town except Copenhagen, out of the 
duchies, that poii-fles a theatre and a 
régular company of comedians. A canal 
has been lately dug here, about a league 
in length, to facilitate the tran{port of 
merchandile brought by fhipping, which 
can only be landed at that diltance from 
the town. . 
“I fhall not repeat the eulogiums,”’ 
fays the author, ‘ that I have often henrd 
made on the iertility of the foil of this 
ifland (Fionia) and on its agriculture; E 
mean, that the parts which I have feen 
(as I only croffed it) are better cultivated 
and richer than the centre, and we meet 
with more country-feats ; but Ihavealways 
thought that this ifland cannot be com- 
pared, by any means, with the pleafant 
parts of Europe, and that for its repu- 
tation in refpeét of fertility, and a well. 
cultivated. foil, it is indébted to the Danes, 
that may have compared it with the ifle 
of Zealand; which is ftill worfe. I have 
obferved in the inland parts of Sweden, 
tracts infinitely more fertile and better 
cultivated: we muft, however, caution 
our readers, again entertaining the no- 
tion, that, in general, Sweden is better 
cultivated than Denmark; it is certainly 
much lefs fo, and there is a reafon that 
it fhould be fo. / 
(To be continued.) 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
CONSIDERATIONS on the CESSION of 
LOUISIANA by FRANCE fo the UNITED 
STATES, and its probable confequences 
not only to thofeé NATIONS, but to SPaIn 
ard BRITAIN. 
HE ceffion of Louifiana to the United 
States of North America, although 
it contains in itfelf the feeds of the greateft 
political revolution that ever the world 
witnefed, has been paffed over /ub /ilentio, 
aS a matter of no weight in the icale of 
No axiom can, how- ~ 
European politics. 
ever, be more feifevident than that it 
will, at no very far diftant period, trans- 
fer the feward/aip (if I may be allowed 
the term) of the South American trea- 
fures, from the Spanifh Government inte 
other hands: and caufe a very extraordi- 
nary, if not a total, alteration in the 
fyfiem and relative flate of politics of 
aimoft every European nation, whilft the 
United States are inextricably drawn inte 
the vortex of European politics—a meas 
fure deprecated by ali the phiofopnical 
and political writers who have empleyed 
their pens on Americano affalis, and by 
nong 
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