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REGNARD’5 JOURNEY TO LAPLAND. 14F
the title of all the firft baftards of the King of Denmark, and means Lion doré; and
when the King upon the throne begets a Guldenleu, that of the late King takes the
title of High Mightinefs.
We were four days and four nights in travelling one hundred and twenty leagues ;
and we arrived at Copenhagen on Thurfday, at the opening of the gate. We lodged
at Krants. ;
Frederic the Third was archbifhop of Bremen, but was elected King, on the death
of his elder brother. He had fix children, two of them boys, and four girls. The
fons were King Chriftian, and Prince George. The eldeft of his daughters, Anne
Sophia, was married to George the Third, Duke of Saxony; another to the Duke
of Holftein, the third, Sophia Amelia, to William Palatine of the Rhine, and brother
to Madame d’ Orleans; and the fourth and youngeft, Ulrica Eleonora, to the King
of Sweden.
Chriftian the Fifth, the prefent King, has five children. Three of them are fons ;
Prince Frederic, eleven years old, Prince Chriftian fix, and Prince Charles one.
Twoare daughters, the eldeft of whom is called Sophia, and the other
The tower of the obfervatory, which a carriage might afcend, isa very curious build-
ing. It was reared by Frederic the Second. From the top of the tower we fee the whole
of the city, which is not very extenfive, but which appears almoft wholly furrounded
by water. There is a celeftial globe of brafs here, made by the hands of Tycho Brahé,
a famous mathematician, and a native of this country.
The Exchange isa very handfome building, placed oppofite to the Louvre. Its
{pire is very curioufly conftructed. Four lizards, whofe tails are raifed up in the air,
form the circumference. It is here, where all curiofities are expofed to fale, as at
the palace.
The harbour contains the King’s fhips, amounting to about fifty or fixty, the
admiral’s veflel has a hundred guns. The Kings of Denmark never fent out fuch a
number of fhips before, and the laft victory which they gained over the Swedes
acquired them immortal honour.
‘The arfenal contains a number of fine pieces of cannon. There are even fome of
highly polifhed fteel, which were manufactured in Mofcovy. Ina hall above, there
are arms for fixty thoufand men, a chariot which moves of itfelf, and another, in the
wheels of which there is a clock, which {trikes the hour according to the motion of the
wheels. All the fpoils which the Danes acquired in their late wars with the Swedes,
are placed here, with the equipage of feventeen veffels, which were taken at one time.
The King’s cabinet is above the library. There are feveral chambers filled with
curiofities; among others, there is a tail of a horfe, which is the mark of authority
among the Turks, and which the bafhaws place before their tents, when they are at
the army ; the Grand Seignior has three, and the Vifier two. We faw a beautiful
female mandrake, the flippers of a girl who was defloured without being con{cious of it,
a nail which they told us, is one of Nebuchadnezzar’s, and one of the children of that
Countefs of Flanders who brought forth, at one birth, as many as there are days ina
ear.
; The King is very handfome, and takes pleafure in various exercifes, fuch as riding
on horfeback, and the chace. He is four-and-thirty years of age, and married
Charlotte Amelia daughter of the Landgrave of Hefie.
There is‘no language fo well adapted for beggars as the Danifh. “When they fpeak,
one is always apt to think that they are crying.
The
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