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328 COXE’S TRAVELS IN DENMARK.
powder-mill, wherein only twenty are generally ufed, and beats only ten pounds of
powder with each mortar. The expence of copper mortars is confiderable, as each
cofts 20l.: but the mills are lefs liable to accident, and if blown up, the mortars are again
recovered.
On taking leave, the general preffed us much to dine with him; but we excufed our-
felves, being under the neceflity of reaching Elfinore, and engaged to dine the next
day with Mr. De Conig. Inour way to Elfinore, we ftopped at a {mall village, and
expected to find but {canty fare for our dinner ; but were agreeably furprized at feeing
the table covered with fome cold provifion, and four bottles of tokay, which the general
had fecretly ordered his houfekeeper to deliver to our fervants.
Cuap. VIL.—Wand of Hucn. —Memoirs of Tycho Brahe.
FOR the purpofe of vifiting the {mall ifle of Huen, celebrated for the refidence of
Tycho Brahe, we embarked at See Luft on board a five-oared boat belonging to Count
Shimmelman, and landed in two hours and an half.
Huen lies fix Englifh miles from the coaft of Zealand, and three from that of Swe-
den, nine from Elfinore, and fourteen from Copenhagen. It formerly belonged to the
Danes, but was ceded to the Swedes at the peace of Rofchild in 1658.
This little ifland is fix miles in circumference, contains a fcattered village, one church,
which is a pretty object on the north-weft coaft, about fifty houfes, and two hundred
and fifty inhabitants. It produces hay, and every fpecies of corn, more than fufficient
for interior confumption. The inhabitants maintain two hundred horfes, one hundred
and fifty cows, four hundred fheep, and the fame number of {wine. The ifland pays, in
-quit-rent and taxes to the King, about 15ol.
We landed on the fouth-weft part in a imall bay, juft below the place where a ftream,
fupplied by numerous pools and fifh-ponds, falls into the fea. We afcended the fhore,
which is cloathed with fhort herbage, crofled the ftream, and pafled over a gently waving
furface gradually floping towards the fea, and walked a mile to a farm-houfe ftanding in
the middle of the ifland, inhabited by Mr. Schaw, a Swedifh gentleman, to whom the
greater part of the ifland belongs. He lives here in fummer, but in winter refides at
Landfcrona. This dwelling is the fame as exifted in Tycho Brahe’s time, and was the
-farm-houle belonging to his eftate. A guide, whom we obtained from Mr. Schaw,
conduéted us to the remains of Tycho’s manfion, which are near the houfe, and con-
fift of little more than a mound of earth which inclofed the garden, and two pits, the
fites of his manfion and obfervatory. From this delightful fpot, the higheft point in the
ifland, we enjoyed a noble profpect; on one fide, the coaft of Zealand, ftretching from
Copenhagen to Elfinore; the fhores gently floping, embrowned to the margin of the
water with rich wood, and beautifully fprinkled with villages and villas; on the other
fide, we traced the rocky and almoft naked cliffs of Sweden, ornamented with the dif-
tant fpires of Landfcrona, Lund, Malmoe, and Helfingborg, and to the north a bound-
lefs expanfe of ocean, its undulating furface covered with innumerable veffels failing in
all directions. A few anecdotes of the Danifh aftronomer, who has rendered this little
ifland remarkable in the hiftory of literature, will not perhaps be unacceptable to the
reader *,
» For the life of Brahe, I have confulted chiefly Gaffendus’s Equitis Dani Tychonis Brahe Aflronorum
Coryphai vita ; Joffenus de vita et mor. Tych. Bra. Orat. Funebris; and Hoffman’s Portraits Hift. des
Hommes Illuf. de Dannemare, article Brahe.
; Tycho
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