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wg A TOUR THROUGH
‘and not quite fo gaudily decorated as thofe of the Swedes,
The Women are fair, well made, and not unlike the Eng-
Iifh, Not far from Copenhagen is an Ifland called Amak
‘Inhabited by a fingular people, originally Dutch, but now
living under the Danifh Government, They were placed
here by Elizabeth wile of Chriftian IT. and fifter of the
‘Emperor Charles v. for the Burpole offupplying her with
vegetables and country fare. They wear one uniform of
coarfe black cloth, ‘The habits of the womien a¥e of the
fame Corer Rrith caps of uncommon form and moft cu-
rioufly plaited. They pay a tax to the King for that pe-
culiarity of drefs, though it is of their own manufactory.
They are a moft laborious, induftrious and ufeful fet of
people, indefatigable i in the culture of Gardens, on which
they principally depen for fupport.. They appear, and
wifh to be thought, poor, but from their induftry have
become an independent people.
‘The manners and cuftoms of the Danes differ much
from theirneighbours, though feparated only by the Sound,
Denmark greatly exceeds Sweden inthe cultivation of land,
pat * their
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